Peggy Piesche

Peggy Piesche (born 1968 in Arnstadt, Germany) is a German literary and cultural scientist, works in adult education and works as a consultant for diversity, intersectionality and decoloniality in the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education).

Piesche was a research assistant at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz from 2004 to 2007, there she coordinated the funded project Black European Studies.

After her academic work Piesche transferred to Gunda Werner Institute for Feminism and Generational Democracy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation [5] in 2017.

[6] Since November 2019 Piesche lease the area "Diversity, Intersectionality and Decolonization" of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education.)

Piesche served on ADEFRA's "Diversifying Matters" scholarly expert group for the Berlin Senate in 2018, which developed measures for the implementation of the UN Decade for People of African Descent 2015–2024.

The consultation process is entitled "Making the Situation of Discrimination and Social Resilience of People of African Descent Visible."

She criticizes players in the German gay and lesbian scene, calling Christopher Street Day a "depoliticized, conventionalized history" in which Black, queer and trans people are not represented.