Anna-Katharina Meßmer (born 1983) is a German activist and sociologist. Her work focuses on digitization, politics, social media, hate in the net, biopolitics, feminism and social politics. She became known for her contribution to the #about action and the open letter to the Federal President Joachim Gauck.
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Life
editIn 2008-2009, she advised the SPD party executive and Gesine Schwan.[1] In early 2013, she was a co-initiator of the #about Action, in which many people shared sexist experiences on Twitter. The hashtag was also honored as the first hashtag in 2013 with the Grimme Online Award. On March 3, 2013, Messmer published with six other women an open letter to German President Joachim Gauck, in which they criticized Gauck's reaction to #aufschrei. He was accused, among others, of "lack of sensitivity to women who have experienced sexism".[2]
In 2017, she completed her doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.[3][4]
Today, Messmer is head of the office of the Research Institute for Social Development (FGW),[5] and Visiting Fellow in the Democracy Lab of The Progressive Center.
Works
edit- Überschüssiges Gewebe. Intimchirurgie zwischen Ästhetisierung und Medikalisierung. 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-17053-0.
- "Same Same but Different", Wanderungen: Migrationen und Transformationen aus geschlechterwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven,. Verlag, 2014. ISBN 9783839422205
References
edit- ^ Fleischhauer, Jan; Hollersen, Wiebke (2013-06-07). "Gender Politics Return: Germany's Rebellious New Feminists". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2019-08-07.
- ^ "Offener Brief anlässlich der Sexismus-Debatte - Aufschreien gegen Sexismus". alltagssexismus.de. Archived from the original on 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2019-08-07.
- ^ Meßmer, Anna-Katharina (20 March 2017). Überschüssiges Gewebe : Intimchirurgie zwischen Ästhetisierung und Medikalisierung. Wiesbaden. ISBN 9783658170547. OCLC 978351111.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Germany, YOU FM de, Frankfurt (2019-05-06). "Soziologin Anna-Katharina Meßmer über Scheiden, Scham und Schönheits-OPs im Intimbereich". YOU FM (in German). Retrieved 2019-08-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Anna-Katharina Meßmer, Autor auf Das Progressive Zentrum". Das Progressive Zentrum (in German). Retrieved 2019-08-07.