Queer Doc

In the organizer's words:

Drama

Consultation hour with playwright Leonie Lorena Wyss

The format "Queer Doc" ("doc" short for "document" and "doctor") combines the topics that interest Leonie Lorena Wyss as the in-house author of a new play about chronic illness and female bodies in medicine: Queerness, medicine and writing itself. In the spirit of public research, Wyss' conversations with institutions and actors from Mannheim are about both an approach to gender medicine and insights into Wyss' writing process. In November, Queer Doc is dedicated to the experiences of genderqueer people in the healthcare system using a very specific example: endometriosis. The protagonist in Leonie Lorena Wyss' new play "Apropos Schmerz (Denken Sie an etwas Schönes)" is not the only one to receive this diagnosis, as the chronic disease affects around 8-15% of people with a uterus in Germany. There are around 40,000 new cases every year, but the path to diagnosis is long: it takes 7-10 years for the disease to be identified. The first step is often a visit to a gynecologist's office. For genderqueer people, who are confronted with various specific hurdles in the field of gynecology, this path is all the more difficult - also in terms of treatment. What exactly do these hurdles look like? What strategies are there for asserting oneself in this environment? And how can these hurdles be overcome? Our guests are a founding member of EndoQueer , an online self-help group for people in the LGBTQIA+ community with endometriosis, and Sabine Eßl , a gynecologist from Mainz. This content has been machine translated.