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Together Against Discrimination: DFC Kreuzberg DFC Kreuzberg’s female football players don’t only want to play football but they also want to make a difference politically. In the following interview they explain how this works.
Why do you want to be politically active with your club? We hope that one day there will be fewer men on the sidelines of the football pitch making sexist comments. We want to be a football club where every girl and women feels comfortable. Our club is about more than just football and also provides room for politically critical interests. How can politically critical campaigns be realized in a football club? Shortly after founding the DFC Kreuzberg, we established a political group for two reasons: first to be able to have an influence on Berlin’s Football Association and second because we want to raise public awareness of structural inequalities, discrimination, sexism and homophobia and to fight back against these issues. What exactly do you do? The club’s work includes participating in working groups and task force meetings, for example of the Berlin Football Association (BFV). The creation of a committee for girls and women is one of our current priorities. We feel we should be strongly represented within the Association because in our view, the BFV is not very interested in creating a committee for girls and women. The BFV’s structure blatantly mirrors those of a traditional football club. The existence of a girls’ and women’s committee would shift power structures within the association An individual committee would surely enable us to create structures which would guarantee stronger support for female football. The Anti-Sexism and Anti-Homophobia-Campaign was our first big project which was supported by FARE Action Weeks. We designed a leaflet and created a banner that we use to raise awareness for discrimination due to sexual orientation and gender, both of which should not be