Vote for Asya Abubakar Abdirahman for the Landesbeirat für Partizipation

I am Asya Abubakar Abdirahman and for those who know me, I am better known as Captain. I am running for a seat on the Berlin Landersbeitrat für Partizipation (Berlin State Advisory Board for Participation).


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International Women* Space sucht Communications Assistants

Wir suchen ab sofort Menschen, die uns im Bereich Kommunikation unterstützen - je nach persönlicher Situation als Honorarkraft, Werkstudent*in oder Minijob möglich.


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Eröffnung der Ausstellung “O-Platz: Selbstermächtigung und Kämpfe der Migration” im FHXB Museum

Wir laden Euch herzlich zu der Ausstellung „O-Platz: Selbstermächtigung und Kämpfe der Migration“ ein. Mit dieser Ausstellung stellen wir die 10-jährige Selbstermächtigungsgeschichte geflüchteter Menschen, die in der Besetzung des Oranienplatzes und später auch innerhalb der Gerhart-Hauptmann-Schule in der Ohlauer Straße ihren Höhepunkt fanden, wieder in den Fokus der Gesellschaft.


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Wir fordern einen Koalitionsvertrag mit expliziten antidiskriminierungs- und vielfaltspolitischen Maßnahmen

Offener Brief an die verhandelnden Parteien - Wir machen uns große Sorgenum die Zukunft unserer pluralen Berliner Stadtgesellschaft und die vielen Errungenschaften, die in den letzten Jahren erarbeitet wurden und strukturell zu spürbaren Verbesserungen beigetragen haben.


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Our Revolution is Coming! We are Coming! IWS speech at 8th March Demo 2023

Jacky from our Break Isolation Group speaks for International Women* Space at the Internationalist 8th March Demonstration “Our Revolution is Coming!”


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O-Platz wurde 10! – Baustelle Migration

Our resistance is alive. O-Platz is alive. 10 years ago the Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg and later also the Gerhart-Hauptmann School in Ohlauer Straße were occupied. To mark this anniversary, we gathered at Oranienplatz from 5.10.-9.10. and celebrated the history of the rebellious refugee movement.


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Bringing people together – Angela Davis meets feminists, community activists at Familiengarten

On the 6th of October 2022 Angela Davis met with several groups of women* from different parts of the world based in Berlin . The meeting, organised by International Women* Space at Stadtteilzentrum Familiengarten in Kreuzberg was about sharing views and perspectives on different feminist struggles around the world.


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“Hello everybody. This is a report on the deportation situation currently, from the Lager in Borgsdorf” – Lager Reports, October 2022

The lager reports are a compilation of audio messages recorded by women living in different shared accommodation facilities for refugees in Berlin and Brandenburg.The reports are coordinated by the Break Isolation Group, a self-organised refugee women only group within International Women* Space. The voices of the lager reports speak to the daily lived experiences of the women living in these facilities as well as addressing current situations, and emerging issues. Topics discussed include general living conditions, access to basic essentials and services, racism, deportations, the COVID-19 pandemic, and many outstanding other issues.


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Angela Davis speaks at Oranienplatz, 06.10.22 | O-Platz wird 10 – Baustelle Migration 

International Women* Space is pleased to share with you Angela Davis' speech at Oranienplatz during the arts and culture festival "O-Platz wird 10 - Baustelle Migration" commemorating 10 years of refugee and migrant occupations of O-Platz and the Gerhart-Hauptmann Schule in Berlin Kreuzberg.


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Forced to Flee: a student’s journey from war in Ukraine to Berlin

On February, 24, 2022, the Russian army attacked Ukraine forcing millions of people to flee their homes seeking safety and protection within Ukraine itself or to neighbouring countries. European countries quickly rallied to welcome Ukrainian refugees but Black and Brown refugees were met with a different kind of welcome at the borders and beyond. We spoke to Captain about her journey.


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