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During the first five-year plan, the Soviet state turned to an unusual source to cope with the challenge of factory-induced deafness and disability: the deaf community. From 1930 to 1937, deaf activists, alongside specialist doctors, organised a yearly, three-day event known as Beregi slukh! (Take Care of Your Hearing!) to propagandise the prevention of deafness. During these years, more than 46,600 lectures were held in venues across the Soviet Union and 7,900,000 brochures, leaflets and posters printed. While the event reflected the Soviet belief that disability was a relic of the ›backward‹ past that would be eliminated as communism approached, the deaf activists involved in these events used them to make the alternative case for their own identity as a legitimate part of the Soviet body politic. By foregrounding their labour capacities and demonstrating aspects of deaf cultural practices (including sign language) to a hearing audience, Beregi slukh! became a powerful means to advocate for the centrality of the deaf community to Soviet visions of self and society.
Queere Geschichtsschreibung steckt auch 2022 im deutschsprachigen Raum immer noch in den Anfängen. Die Erforschung lesbischer* Geschichte wurde sehr lange hauptsächlich von Aktivist*innen geleistet, die in politischen Projekten oder finanziert durch kleinere Aufträge nach Spuren lesbischen* Lebens suchten und Stimmen von Zeitzeug*innen aufzeichneten. In der universitären Welt ist lesbische* Geschichtsschreibung bisher allenfalls punktuell zu finden. Folgende Ausführungen zur Situation frauenliebender Frauen* in psychiatrischen Kliniken nach 1945 werden mehr Fragen als Forschungsbefunde enthalten, da sich unsere Forschungen noch in den Anfängen befinden.