Judy Mièl

1st QUEER HAIKU CONTEST: The winners

After weeks of waiting COVEN BERLIN finally announces their favorite three submissions of their very first QUEER HAIKU CONTEST, which took place from July 22nd to August 22nd: JOHN WAIBLINGER, ESTHER…

1st QUEER HAIKU CONTEST

Join us in the first QUEER HAIKU CONTEST by COVEN BERLIN! Haikus are the minimal expression of poetry: they rely in the juxtaposition of two poetic images or…

CHALLENGE THE TRADITIONAL ROMANCE NARRATIVE

Stop romanticizing intimate partner violence! Western culture’s traditional gender ideology is woven seamlessly into both fairy tale and dark romance narratives. Central to traditional gender ideology is linking…

I LOST 5 POUNDS IN A WEEK, ASK ME HOW

It was amazingly easy: I got an intestinal virus. The symptoms were vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pains, headaches, dizzinnes, loss of muscle tissue and weight loss. I could feel my body…

MY COMPLEX OPINION ON 50 SHADES OF GREY

Let me please start with this: I think it’s a godawful book. Long after it had become a hit, after reading comments and parodies, after hearing about it in almost…

WISH YOU WERE QUEER: A Pride Week Celebration

June 17 – 21, 2013 Film Week Leading up to Christopher Street Day and the Transgenialer Christopher Street Day, Mindpirates e.V. is screening a selection of queer films Monday to…

WISH YOU WERE QUEER: A PHOTO SPREAD

COVEN BERLIN’s favorite office co-workers give a shout-out! Photos by Lo Pecado and Judy Mièl

ART PORN WEEK: potentia gaudendi

Judy Mièl’s most recent art piece for COVEN BERLIN, a gif installation, represents the carnal, fluid and digitalisible nature of the potent gaudendi or “orgasmic force”, according to the queer…

COFRADÍA DE LOS INVERTIDOS

With the illustration series Cofradía de los Invertidos (2013 by Judy Mièl) COVEN BERLIN inflames the edge between symbols of Catholic cults and emblems of queer rebellion and empowerment – minorities slip into…