Ahmet Sitki Demir

Ahmet Sitki Demir is a Berlin-based non-binary and queer Muslim actHIVist, urbanist, cultural worker, and curator. Ahmet’s work is characterized by an intersectional diversity-critical and discrimination-sensitive approach. They currently work for the German AIDS service organization as deputy manager of the countrywide GBTIQ+ health prevention campaign “IWWIT.” For more than fifteen years, Ahmet has been dealing with discourses around postcolonial theory, social access & barriers, and intersectional feminism focusing on the interweaving of gender, sexual orientation, and poverty. Translating and transferring cultural codes from one group to another and making multiple affiliations understandable has always been the basic groundwork for them. In projects like “Thinking from the outskirts of the city” and “Memory Care” in Berlin, “LastHomo?!” and “Pray me awayer” in Vienna, Ahmet intervened and collaborated within queer/migrant urban fields and cultures. They studied European ethnology and metropolitan culture in Hamburg, Berlin, and Istanbul.