Life (Un)Worthy of Life: A Queer Dis/Crip Talk Show, Season 3, Episode 1: Chicago and On the Zoom Ramp of the Universe

For the past two years, multidisciplinary artist Perel has been presenting this talk show throughout Germany featuring interviews with writer Kenny Fries. “Life unworthy of life” is an official designation used by the Nazi regime to decide who would be killed or spared. It was used to justify the killing of disabled people under the Aktion T4 program. Perel changed the construction of this term to create a space for the open discussion of legacies of oppression.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Perel and Kenny had to go virtual for their Chicago performance, produced by Bodies of Work. The video version is based on Perel and Kenny’s Zoom discussion with 11 eminent Chicago-based disability artists, scholars, and activists, about T4, eugenics and the coronavirus pandemic, and how best we might move forward as a community.

The video premiered on June 27, 2021.

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