Deutschlandfunk
My art work Beys Feygele was mentioned in this cultural radio segment. They described my artwork very strangely saying the color was “screaming pink”, and were incorrect about it being paper mache. The host also didn’t say my name, maybe they thought Beys Feygele was an artist collective. You can hear that part at 3:00
Deutschlandfunk September 2025
EDA Magazin
Disability is a Jewish Value ! Hani Esther Indictor Portner @the.rainbow.fairy writes about how accessibility of Jewish spaces is an absolute necessity! They share their experiences as a neurodiverse wheelchair user in Berlin trying to navigate often treacherous and unwelcoming terrain. To provide further context Hani interviewed their Aunt Rebecca Portner about her activism and experiences growing up Jewish and Disabled.
EDA Magazin
Hani Esther Indictor Portner @the.rainbow.fairy writes about their participation in the Jewish Art School of the @institutneuesozialeplastik and shares the experiences of their friends and fellow students. Last semester, they created a sculpture and installation of Rabbi Regina Jonas, which was exhibited in February at the Alte Münze and in May at @limmud.de_germany
Edamagazin.de May 2025
Queere Geschichte(n). Erinnerungen und Visionen im Anschluss an Leslie Feinbergs
Two years ago I facilitated a workshop on Queer Trans Jewish Futures for the conference honoring the 30th anniversary of Stone Butch Blue’s publication. Afterwards I was asked to contribute something to this book alongside other conference presentors, and I asked if I could include my art, and this is the book!
transcript-verlag.de April 2025
SIEGESSÄULE
In the Calender for the December 3 Passing the Paintbrush Gallery Show www.siegessaeule.de December 2024
Jüdisches Kaleidoskop Brandenburg
A Visit to the Millennium Oak, Mycological and Jewish Historical
Networks of Solidarity
Kiga Brandenburg November 2024
Jewish Women’s Archive
English Detailed Biography of Charlotte Charlaque with no deadnaming and only respectful trauma informed language written by me, a trans jew. Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women November 2024
Toni Ebel Workshop in November at Magnus Hirschfeld Society
Art workshop “Passing the Paintbrush”: Toni Ebel
Queer History Month Workshop on Laserstein
Jewish and Queer History and Painting Workshop held at Spinnboden lesbian archive for the Queer History month program on May 27 2024. Queerhistory.de 2024
Toni Ebel Workshop in Feburary at Magnus Hirschfeld Society
“Sponsored by the initiative fund of “Democracy in the Center”, Hani Portner and Annelisa Leinbach held a painting workshop in memory of Toni Ebel on February 26, 2024 in the rooms of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society: a completely new, lively and wonderful experience for us too! Our archive and library not only invite you to quietly study and delve into the written word… We will definitely repeat such an event on another occasion!”
Letters To Berlin -Cultures of Rememberance Exhibition
Authors Kai* Brust, Hani חאני Esther Indictor Portner
Languages: Audiofiles with spoken word in German and English. Written transcripts in German and English. 6 texts available as mp3 Audio-file and written transcript. 1 photo of Hella Knabe. 5 paintings on canvas.
“Letters to Berlin” is a project of the alternative trans culture of remembrance by TIN* people for TIN* people. This culture of remembrance is intended to be empowering, which is not so easy when it comes to the topic of National Socialism. Nevertheless, it does exist: Documents that look at the lives of trans people through the eyes of those affected and not through the eyes of the police, authorities or medicine. These include the “Letters to Berlin”. Within the exhibition the letters are accompanied by a picture of the seamstress Hella Knabe and paintings on canvas by the artist Hani חאני Esther Indictor Portner. Under every audio you can find the English-Language transcript.
Exhibition at the Museum des Kapitalismus December 2023
Jüdisches Kaleidoskop Brandenburg
Die digitale Veranstaltung beleuchtet das Leben und
Wirken des queeren jüdischen Widerstandskämpfers
Gad Beck. Mit Hilfe von Fotos, Kunst, Karten, Fotografien
und Spezialgästen wird Gad Becks Lebensweg durch
Berlin und Brandenburg skizziert und seine Tätigkeiten im
Widerstand gegen das NS-Regime näher beleuchtet.
Die Veranstaltung findet in deutscher und englischer
Sprache statt.
Fachstelle Antisemitismus Brandenburg November 2023
Magnus Hirschfeld Documentary
On Camera Interview for documentary on Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Release date TBA
Jewish Women’s Archive
JWA sat down with Hani Portner, a multidisciplinary queer, trans, Jewish, disabled artist working in Berlin, Germany. Emma Breitman June 2023
Talmud Magic with Olivia Devorah
“Portrait of Toni Ebel (left, 1881-1961) & Charlotte Charlaque (right, 1892-1963)” by Hani Portner
This was commissioned to support a session discussing a rare mention of lesbian relations in Talmud (Shabbat 65a-b), as a way to show that queer Jews have always been around, even when history has minimized their memory.
Hani Portner (they/fae) paints and shares the lives of trans and queer people involved with Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute @friends_of_dora.
Talmud Magic with Olivia Devorah June 2023
Stone Butch Blues Conference
Jewish QT Futures Format: workshop (engl.)
Leslie Feinberg’s Jewish identity is often downplayed/overlooked even though it was an important part of hir identity and life, activism, and community. Zie did come from a larger movement of Jewish lesbians and that community is so important to acknowledge and understand in the context of hir work and perspectives. Hir revolutionary ideals and work lend themselves to revolutionary imaginations of queer and trans futures, which this workshop will explore in discussions using creative group dreaming and envisioning structures, spaces, and times that feel right, beautiful, and just. As a Jewish person I want to center conversations and exchanges with other Jewish people involved in the conference. There are not enough spaces to embrace and celebrate being Jewish and Queer and Trans and this space of exchange is what this workshop is about. Allies and co-conspirators are also welcome, but the focus is on Queer and Transgender Jews.
Discussion will include our personal experiences as queer Jews in academia, Feinberg’s biography and life as a Jewish queer activist, context around themes of antisemitism in queer and leftist communities, and textual analysis of how Feinberg wrote about their Jewish identity.
Zentrum Gender & Diversity May 2023
Spitz Magazine
אירוע זיכרון קווירי ויהודי במתכונת של החלפת ספרים בשני הנושאים יתקיים בשבת הקרובה, 6 במאי, 90 שנה בדיוק לאחר הביזה וההרס של מכון הירשפלד לחקר המין ב-6 במאי 1933:
Remembrance Event Book Exchange, 90 years since May 6 1933
המכון, שהוקם בידי הרופא והסקסולוג היהודי מגנוס הירשפלד, היה מוסד ללא כוונת רווח בשכונת טירגארטן בברלין והראשון בעולם שהוקם במטרה לקדם הכרה חברתית במיניות קווירית וביטול אפליית הומואים בחוק. לצד עבודת המחקר יסד הירשפלד גם ספרייה ייחודית על אהבה חד-מינית והומוארוטיקה. המכון פעל מ-1919 ועד 6 במאי 1933, אז הועלתה תכולתו באש בכיכר האופרה.
אירוע החלפת הספרים בנושאים קוויריים ויהודיים יתקיים בפארק טירגארטן שבו עמד המכון. “כל כך הרבה עבודה על מדעי המגדר, שירותי בריאות ובניית קהילה אבדה בפשיטה הזו”, כותבות מארגנות האירוע, “ומתוך 12,000 הספרים שנלקחו, הצלחנו לשחזר רק 40 מהם”. אירוע הזיכרון בפארק יהיה במתכונת של פיקניק, “פעולה הפוכה ממה שקרה לפני 90 שנה, שבה נוכל לחגוג את היותנו יהודים, קווירים, שמחים וחיים”.
פרטים נוסף בדף האירוע (לעיל)
Spitz Magazine Berlin מגזין שפיץ ברלין May 2023
SIEGESSÄULE Queer Termine
Constellations Act 3 – Magnus Hirschfeld Institute
- March 11, 2023, 3:00 p.m
- Memorial column for the Institute for Sexual Science
Memory Activism with Hani Portner aka The Rainbow Fairy and a contribution designed by Shu Lea Cheang
Constellations Festival – Celebrating Queer Spaces that no longer exist
Constellations Festival
During its 14 year existence, the institute for sexual science (1919-1933) provided gender-affirming care, counseling, surgeries, and community support. Led by Magnus Hirschfeld, queer, trans*, Jewish people who found shelter here have danced, talked, feasted, and celebrated Shabbat in each other’s loving arms. Hani Portner’s audio portrait engages us in a conversation with the land about reclamation, revitalization and retaliation while recounting the people’s stories. Imagine yourself as a mushroom – by envisioning ourselves as mycelium, connecting, entangling, and supporting, we can build something beautiful together, in solidarity with the marginalized and honor our trancestors.
Flora Fauna Podcast
This week we chat with Hani Portner, they are located in Berlin, Germany. We recorded this in Brussels, Belgium while we were traveling to Europe. Hani is a trans queer Jewish flora and funga lover who is involved with German history. They’re huge in their local community for planting mushroom memorial gardens that honor unrepresented people. Kaitlyn Kuehn October 2022
Mycelium Memory 