FEMINISM

Live performance documentation. In a dimly lit room with a black floor and veiled dark blue windows, four dancers in white t-shirts and diapers stand in a cluster, mostly with their backs to the camera, while another dancer facing forward, is semi illuminated by a spotlight on a white sheet behind them.

EARTHBOUND SQUATTERS

Watching shows, I often feel that the performers try to make me feel a certain way: to laugh, to cry, to be turned on, to be shocked, to feel catharsis….

ON TIME

Our bodies are a clock. Right here and now, always. Time is proportion, time is scale, timing is everything. Time passes. The MC is on the mic, gentlemen. And you…

What matters about matter? In the October edition of VULVA CLUB,f riendship-based collective female trouble hosted an evening around different intellectual notions of matter, material, and materiality. They drew from…

INTERVIEW WITH MARI LUZ ESTEBAN

Mari Luz Esteban is a feminist anthropologist who studies the body and human emotions. She teaches at the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), where she is also a mentor for…

INTERVIEW WITH FEMINIST ARTIST AGATA CARDOSO

It’s hard to miss Agata Cardoso’s work, amongst the familiar sea of stereotypical saccharine images that claim to summarize femininity today. Working solely in analogue, her photography is a hypnotic…

A pen and pastel drawing on white paper of caricatured and loosely drawn faces. The faces are defined in black pen, while blue, orange, pink, red, yellow and green pastel is smeared between and around the outlines. The texture of the paper is visible.

BITTER VICTORIES

The second time I went out socially after moving to London, a stranger forced me under pressure to out myself to the group we were sitting with, while discussing how…

LABOR OR LABOR – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS #5

Imperialist and sexist systems of control are imprinted in the way society thinks about, and acts around, labor. Be it how we work, how we give birth, or how we…

A TALK WITH SARAH SCHULMAN

This article is a response to a talk given by Sarah Schulman in Berlin on March 23rd 2015. The event was co-hosted by feminist collective Female Trouble and COVEN BERLIN….

EDITORS’ LETTER #4

“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections – and it matters which ones get made…

GO LOVE YOURSELF

How do we learn how to love? Where? Who from? My school teacher would reply: “the guy is driving you crazy but just because he likes you! He harasses you,…