German, BUT with a migration background

Lahya (Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo) ist eine Schwarze, intersektionelle Freiberuflerin. Sie ist Künstlerin, Autorin, Poetin, Kuratorin, Multiplikatorin, Fotografin, Aktivistin, Workshop-Teamerin und Sängerin. Zu viel für ein kurzes Leben? Ganz klar: Nein! In Lahyas Leben dreht sich fast alles um liebevoll sowie gesellschaftskritisch angereihte Realitätsmoleküle, diese sind ummantelt mit Gesang, Fotografie und_oder Poesie. In ihr wohnt eine Schwarze, von gesellschaftlicher Behinderung betroffene, neurodiverse, von unerschöpflichen Emotionen getragene, queere, phat-is beautiful, mehrfachüberlebende Akademikerin, Künstlerin und Aktivistin mit deutschem Pass. Eine königliche, ost, weiß, und weiblich sozialisierte, poly-li_ebende cis_Femme aus der Mittelschicht, mit aus_reichend finanziellen Mitteln, angemessen vielen Haaren auf dem Kopf und mit großem Herz. (Stand: September 2017)Sie lebt Buchstaben und beschäftigt sie sich mit Themen wie Dekolonialisierung, Traum(a), Selbst_Liebe, Intersektionalität, Heilung, Privilegien, Identität_en und ganz besonders warmes Erdbeereis.

Born in 1978, Tülin Duman is a queer and human rights activist and the chief executive officer of Südblock. For many years Tülin Duman has been engaged in various projects against sexism, homo- and transphobia, as well as racism, and increasingly in the musical and artistic domain. „Think multidimensionally, act multiperspectively“ is her take on these issues. She is co-owner and chief executive officer of the event location Südblock, a showstage, bar, neighborhood meeting place and venue in Kreuzberg. Since 2010 she has organized discussions, concerts and queer-feminist party series. A special focus of her work is on racism and sexism within the queer scene.For over 20 years Tülin has been active professionally and voluntarily in many political, artistic and cultural projects. From 2008 to 2011 Tülin Duman was chief executive officer of GLADT e.V. (Berlin) which is the only independent queer migrant self-organization with the status of a registered association in all of Germany. In 2005 Duman founded the shop „GOAL“ which addresses soccer culture. With GOAL she organized event series, exhibitions and readings on the topics of discrimination in soccer, antisexist fan culture and women in soccer. Under the name of „Kick it queer“ she also organised a series of large public screenings of women’s soccer games.Tülin Duman studied pharmacy and from 2002 to 2008 she was a project coordinator in the area of Public Health at Gesundheit Berlin, with a focus on migration and social injustice. Before this she was coordinator and representative project manager at the EU project in Istanbul on the topic of consumer protection and patient rights, as well as coordinator of women’s legal aid projects for victims of sexual violence and student assistant at the human rights foundation (treatment center for victims of torture) in Istanbul. ©Hassan

Clementine Ewokolo Burnley is a Cameroonian, British, African, European writer, 24 hours a day mother and community worker. She writes about loss, survival, cultural hybridity, mostly recently in Witnessed series, Versal Journal, The Feminist Wire, Parabola Magazine and The Bristol Prize Anthology 2017, Clementine lives and writes between lots of different places. You can find her at the the Migration Council of Berlin, blogging on ezibota.com or on Twitter at @decolonialheart