Miscellaneous
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This has been one hell of a year, and Berlin was different!: Some Final Thoughts on the 10th Anniversary of the #FemGeniusesinBerlin
This has been one hell of a year. Early last fall, I was preparing to pursue a promotion to Full Professor, which the Dean of Faculty recommended last month and the Board of Trustees approved this past Friday. Throughout the fall and early this spring, I was working to submit the first draft of my…
#femGeniusesInBerlin, 1UP Graffiti, Adam Schonfeld, ADEFRA, African Quarter Berlin, Afro-German, Afro-German Women, Anne Frank Museum, Anne Frank Zentrum, Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde and Berlin, Audre Lorde and Germany, Audre Lorde Street, Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years, Berlin and asylum, Berlin and immigrants, Berlin and migration, Berlin asylum system, Berlin Gayborhood, Berliner Unterwelten, Christopher Isherwood, Dagmar Schultz, Dana Asbury, Eldorado Berlin, Erika Mann, Europe and asylum, European asylum system, Farbe Bekennen, Feminist & Gender Studies, FHXB Museum, Görlitzer Park Berlin, German colonialism, graffiti and racism, Holocaust and Berlin, Ika Hügel-Marshall, Ika Huegel-Marshall, In Audre’s Footsteps, Initiative for Black People in Germany, Initiative Schwarzer Menschen in Deutschland, Intersectionality and Berlin, Jasmin Eding, Jazlyn Andrews, Jennifer Kamau, Joliba, Josephine Apraku, Judy Gummich, Katharina Oguntoye, Kreuzberg and immigrants, Kreuzberg and migration, LGBTQ Berlin, Magnus Hirschfeld, May Ayim, Museum Neukolln, One United Power, Oranienplatz and migration, Oranienplatz and occupation, Oranienplatz and refugees, Oranienplatz movement, Orlanda Frauen Verlag, Orlanda Press, Orlanda Verlag, Orlanda Women’s Press, pink triangle Nollendorfplatz, Queer Berlin, racism and Berlin, refugees in Berlin, refugees in Kreuzberg, Ria Cheatom, Schwules Museum, sex work Berlin, sex workers Berlin, Showing Our Colors, street art and racism, Urban Nation Museum, With Legs Wide Open -
Some Final Thoughts on the 2023 #FemGeniusesinBerlin
“Gotta hit them muthafuckin’ angles! It’s a short life!”—Drake, “Nice for What” (2018) I want to be honest. Every summer since around 2018, about halfway through this course (which I’ve taught annually since 2014 and except in 2020 and 2021 because of COVID-19), I contemplate not teaching it again. Most of the time, that has…
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Some Final Thoughts on the 2022 #FemGeniusesinBerlin
I haven’t taught this course in two years due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. So, it’s been great to be back. But I am exhausted. I had 13 students, which isn’t much different from my average. But again, it’s been two years. So, it felt like a lot. Still, the students were great. They were curious,…
#femGeniusesInBerlin, Adam Schonfeld, ADEFRA, Audre Lorde, Berlin Massive, Berliner Unterwelten, Dana Asbury, FemGeniuses in Berlin, German colonialism, graffiti Berlin, In Audre’s Footsteps, Interkulturelles Frauenzentrum SUSI, Iris Rajanayagam, Jasmin Eding, Josephine Apraku, Judy Fisher, May Ayim, Mona El Omari, Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt, Neues Museum, RomaniPhen, Schwules Museum, Sharon Dodua Otoo, street art berlin, Urban Nation Museum, Witnessed Series -
Some Final Thoughts on the 2019 #FemGeniusesinBerlin
I want to start by saying that the five year anniversary of the course started out with a bang for a few reasons: Judy and Mekael arrived the same day I did, and we trekked to Radebeul (near Dresden) to attend the Karl May Festival so Judy could observe, think about, and examine Native American participation…
#femGeniusesInBerlin, Adam Schonfeld, ADEFRA, Berlin Massive, Dana Asbury, Each One Teach One, FemGeniuses in Berlin, FHXB Museum, German colonialism, Jasmin Eding, Josephine Apraku, Judy Fisher, Mona El Omari, RomaniPhen, Schwules Museum, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Topography of Terror, Urban Nation Museum
Dr. Heidi R. Lewis 