LET’S CAFÉ

#8 «  A Cry and a Whisper – Total Eclipse of the grant 

colleagues in conversation: Mx CAT (aka Cat Jugravu)

26.06.2025 - 5 pm CET

Knocking on the institution door, but there's no Body home.

MxCAT slides into the cracks — somewhere between the noise of a queer scream and the rupture of institutional silence. In this offering, they wish to trace the post-inclusive leftovers of a QUEERDOS Theatre: trauma-informed but joy-fuelled, high femme dissonance retching - phantom bioglitter penetrating the wound. 

Why is our art read as therapy, and not as theory?

Why are our queer, ‘unnatural’ monstrous bodies archived as risk but never as knowledge - in contemporary Theatre

This is a knock. 

A soft threat. 

A whisper shaped like a crowbar. 

An occupation in a cup - 

MxCAT talks methodology of (un)making: poetry is resistance to structural dogma, the stage is exorcism, and queer temporality IS refusal -  to linear survival and quiet complicite

We talk funding, but we mean the power of shaping a discourse. We talk about decoloniality, but it’s dripping through our own colonial scaffolds. This is a séance for those of us who are currently strategising, plotting, and revolting in/with communities.

Come if you’re tired.

Come if you’re loud.

Come if you’ve ever been told you’re too much.

Mx CAT (aka Cat Jugravu) is a trans non-binary poet, theatre-maker, and cultural activist of Romani descent. A graduate of the Applied Theatre: Artistic Practice and Society MA Program at Mozarteum University Salzburg, their work bridges performance, pedagogy, and cultural memory. They are the founder and artistic co-director of QUEERDOS Kollektiv (Berlin), a platform for intersectional, queer-led performance projects across Europe.

As co-founder of DePART Collective, they received the 2025 Bertha Artivism Award for Fields of Resistance, a decolonial remembrance project on the Porrajmos (Romani Holocaust). Mx CAT also serves as Chair of IQTIA – Institute for Queer, Trans, and Intersex Autonomy, dedicated to building sustainable infrastructures for intersectional education and transnational artistic collaboration. Their work centers queer, trans*, and Romani voices, using art as a tool for radical listening, community resilience, and structural resistance.