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What we need your help for:
Your story is important! Help us to make the history of the removal of custody rights from mothers in lesbian relationships in Berlin visible and to contribute to the education and documentation of the history of lesbian discrimination.
To do this, we are looking for you, mothers and children, who would like to speak publicly about their experiences in divided and reunified Berlin. Your reports should help to better understand and process historical discrimination and its possible aftereffects up to the present day.
Do you have any information on the subject of the removal of custody rights in Berlin or are/were you affected yourself?
Then please contact the project manager and scientific officer for society, participation and anti-discrimination at the BMH personally and confidentially.
We are happy about any interest and will treat your contact discreetly and confidentially.
Thank you for your support.
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Research project on the removal of custody for mothers in lesbian relationships in Rhineland-Palatinate (Dr. Kirsten Plötz, 2021)
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