We look forward to open the exhibition with a panel discussion together with many guests from the sport world, politics and other societal areas. Together with our guests who are all active around football, we want to explore the question how the role and acceptance of women in football has developed. We'd like to address girls, boys and all others. In a subculture that has the stands as its stage, participants should be encouraged to think about who plays on this stage and what the play is about.
How is femininity dealt with and what is the correlation between priviledge and exclusion? Sexism is visible and audible for women inside the stands. Together we want to work on recognizing these phenomena and to elaborate ways of handling them.
She is an explosive mix. The daughter from a classical family of guest workers counter-acts every stereotype: special needs student and scholarship student for the highly talented. A woman with grapho-legasthenia and qualified architect.
It hasn't been easy for her to make her way - as a person with a migrant background and as a woman. This struggle is one of the daily struggles of many others. Senay's message is: "Be satisfied and confident and believe in yourself - no matter what others say or think! A message that she wants to share with all other visitors of this evening.
Because complacency and confidence are strong means against stereotypes and discrimination. After her performances at the end of March, at the Unterhaus in Mainz, she fortunately found the time to come back to the exhibition to spend her evening with us in Mainz.
