General Assembly on the 20th of October at 18:00
On Monday, October 20th at 6:00 PM, we’re kicking off the new semester with our General Assembly!
There, we’ll introduce ourselves to new students and elect our three representatives for the autonomous Queer Department for the 2025/26 term. Afterward, we want to give you the chance to get to know each other and connect. Following a few icebreaker games, we’ll round off the evening with snacks and drinks. We’ll meet at 6:00 PM in the Zwille on the TU campus.
Who can vote?
All queer students at TU Berlin are invited to take part in the election. By Queer we mean an umbrella term for people who don’t fit into society’s norms around romance, sexuality, and/or gender. This can include, for example, trans, intersex, non-binary, agender, lesbian, bisexual, gay, or asexual people. It’s important to us that it’s about self-definition: if you identify as queer, then you are queer!
Who can run for election?
All queer students at TU Berlin can run for the election. We’re still looking for people who would like to take on this role for the upcoming term, feel free to reach out via email if you have any questions.
Get-to-know meeting after the General Assembly
After the election, we want to give everyone who doesn’t yet know many other queer people at the university the chance to change that! So come by if you’d like to make some new friends through a few icebreaker games. After that, we’ll wind down the evening together in a relaxed atmosphere. We want to encourage you to also come to our Get-to-know meeting alone!
Accessibility
The General Assembly and the following get-to-know event will take place in the Zwille on the TU campus. The space is on ground level but only accessible via cobblestones. The door has a threshold of about 3 cm. The room is smoke-free. An accessible, gender-neutral restroom can be unlocked for you upon request in the neighboring building. Participation in both German and English will be possible. There will be an awareness team present (you can find our concept on our website).
Unfortunately, we can’t offer childcare, but children are very welcome to join.
Welcome-Plenary on the 22nd of October at 16:15
If you’d like to get involved with the Queer Department this semester, come to our Welcome Plenary! We’ll explain how the department works, what our plans for the future are, and how you can best get involved. Of course, you’re welcome to join any of our regular plenary meetings (every Wednesday at 4:15 PM), we’ll gladly explain the basics to you then, too. We’ll meet at 4:15 PM in our room on the ground floor of the TK building. You’ll recognize the room by the sign on the window.
The Welcome Plenary will take place in the Flauschraum on the ground floor of the TK building. The room is on ground level. In the hallway, there is a gender-neutral and accessible restroom. During our plenary, there won’t be an awareness team. The plenary will be held in German or English, depending on participants’ preferences.
Awareness:
As the Queer Department of the AStA TUB, we want to offer events for queer people at the TU. It is particularly important to us that all people feel comfortable at our events. We do not accept discriminatory behavior, including anti-queer and trans*, racist, antisemitic, classist and ableist behavior. It is important to us that all people who need help see us as a point of contact and that we respond appropriately to incidents.
In order to achieve this, we provide an awareness team at all events that can be recognized by pink high-visibility vests. We do our best to design the awareness team in such a way that everyone feels safe to approach them. The awareness team can also be reached by phone and via Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal (+49 1575 4695822) at larger/more chaotic events. The best way to reach us afterwards is via our email (queer@asta.tu-berlin.de).
The awareness team actively approaches people who it perceives as disruptive or who appear to be in need of support. The person in need of help has the right to decide how the awareness team intervenes. In certain serious cases, however, we feel compelled to step in.
There is an awareness room or area at all events. In the Zwille this is directly in the building, in EB104 you have to walk a few minutes to the room of our Collective. People in need may use this room to calm down and recover. There we provide a blanket, water, stimming toys, food, tea, and a first aid kit.
We do not want drugs to be consumed at our events. Alcohol in reasonable quantities is the only exception. Smoking is generally only permitted outside, sometimes in certain smoking areas outside.
We reserve the right to expel people who behave unacceptably from the event.
If you have any questions about our concept, please send us an email or speak to us in person.