CHECK Magazin - Gesundheitsmagazin für Männer No.16
Wie will ich oder wie wollen wir ohne Druck der Gesellschaft und auch der queeren Community authentisch leben, sodass es uns glücklich macht? In dieser Ausgabe schauen wir auch da hin: Auf die Kraft der Selbstwirksamkeit, auf Reformen und neue Wege der Vernetzung. Gesundheit ist ein Menschenrecht und unsere Rechte lassen wir uns nicht nehmen.
Wie will ich oder wie wollen wir ohne Druck der Gesellschaft und auch der queeren Community authentisch leben, sodass es uns glücklich macht? In dieser Ausgabe schauen wir auch da hin: Auf die Kraft der Selbstwirksamkeit, auf Reformen und neue Wege der Vernetzung. Gesundheit ist ein Menschenrecht und unsere Rechte lassen wir uns nicht nehmen.
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<strong>CHECK</strong> MAG #16<br />
QUEER<br />
KNOWLEDGE<br />
Contributing to more<br />
education on sexual health<br />
is exactly what we have<br />
in common with social<br />
media genius Dimi, who,<br />
as @dimxoo, shares<br />
queer knowledge in a funny<br />
and simple way to his many<br />
followers.<br />
Hello, Dimi, how did you come up with<br />
the idea of having your own channel and<br />
what drives you to do it?<br />
The idea goes way back to 2012, when<br />
I was at school and I was experimenting<br />
with my camera and had a photography<br />
blog. After about two years, I switched to a<br />
YouTube channel because I was in the mood<br />
for moving pictures and another challenge.<br />
I shared my creative DIY ideas with my<br />
community on YouTube for six years until<br />
I finally felt that the ideas were getting<br />
repetitive and I wanted to show a different<br />
side of myself. I enjoy making short videos<br />
on TikTok about sexuality, gender identity,<br />
contraception and other topics and wanted<br />
to make more!<br />
“ I ask the people in my community<br />
what’s on their minds and what<br />
topics they still feel unsure about.”<br />
/dimxoo<br />
Your videos also deal with sexually<br />
transmitted diseases, queer everyday<br />
problems and other things, such as how<br />
to douche properly. Where do you get<br />
the topics from?<br />
Firstly, they come from my community.<br />
I ask people what’s on their minds and what<br />
topics they still feel unsure about. But my<br />
everyday life also plays a big role here. The<br />
two videos about an STI check-up and the<br />
subsequent treatment of gonorrhoea were<br />
ultimately only created because I decided<br />
to record the whole thing on video that day<br />
to take away people’s fear of getting tested<br />
and to remove taboos from the whole<br />
process. The aim of the videos is always to<br />
break taboos.<br />
Isn’t it sometimes difficult to have to address<br />
a complex topic in so few seconds?<br />
Sometimes I feel more like a rapper<br />
than a speaker. But it’s important to me to<br />
give a stage to topics that are sometimes<br />
not discussed in the mainstream of society.<br />
Hard facts are part of it. With additional<br />
text or graphics in the video or a detailed<br />
summary in the video description, you can<br />
definitely round off a key topic. And if there<br />
are still a lot of questions about something,<br />
a sequel can be filmed.<br />
Community42<br />
Foto: ©Sophia Emmerich
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