In conversation with Lucas Duelund Meier

International Women’s Day - a reason, and a reminder. 

Perspectives shift when different experiences enter the conversation.

With Lucas Duelund Meier, the dialogue moved through healthcare systems, queer visibility, and the quiet question of ancestry. His answers connect structural change with something more personal: the search for cultural roots and the women who came before us.

It became a conversation about recognition - in society, in institutions, and within ourselves.

IF YOU COULD REDESIGN ONE SYSTEM TO IMPROVE WOMEN'S LIVES, WHAT WOULD IT BE - AND WHY?

Within the healthcare system, there needs to be a stronger focus in research on women's bodies and cycles, so that it is not only men's bodies we know the most about.

In addition, I would make it easier for trans women to be recognised within the healthcare system as well as in society more broadly.

WHICH WOMAN PAST OR PRESENT - WOULD YOU MOST WANT TO SIT NEXT TO AT A DINNER PARTY AND WHY?

My Greenlandic grandmother, whom I never met.

My father was adopted into a Danish family the day he was born. For me, that adoption has always been accompanied by a sense of absence.

An absence I experience as a lack of connection to the women before me and to the Inuit culture I come from.

WHERE IS PROGRESS REAL - AND WHERE IS IT MERELY PERFORMATIVE?

One area where real progress has been made is the consent law.

Although it has its shortcomings, and although victims of sexual assault still face significant challenges in bringing cases forward, the consent law is a step in the right direction.

In contrast, I see the capitalisation of the queer movement’s rainbow flag - rainbow washing - as a performative kind of “progress.”

 

 

 

Lucas'S FAVOURITE KINRADEN PIECES

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Throughout the conversation, the idea of recognition returned again and again. Recognition in healthcare systems. Recognition in law. Recognition of identities that have historically remained unseen.

Progress, as Lucas describes it, is rarely perfect - but certain steps still matter.

More voices from our gathering will follow in the coming days. Visit our Journal each day this week to read the next conversation.

With Love,
KINRADEN