GIRL, SHOW ME THAT BODY (OF WORK) # 5
“Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work)” is a literary performance series presenting works by FLINTA* writers with migration and exile experiences in Berlin.
The 2026 series responds to the global rise of authoritarianism and censorship, which disproportionately targets BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ themes. Literature is positioned as a space that must remain free from political influence. The 2025 edition featured voices from Europe, including Ukraine, as well as from Israel and Palestine. In 2026, the focus is on Berlin-based authors from regions where feminist literature is threatened or banned, including Brazil, Ecuador, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and the USA.
The series frames writers as human rights advocates, often unprotected by institutions, and asks: Where does justice begin when people are denied their voice? On stage speak those who are oppressed by regimes, the justice system, other institutions, and their own cultural contexts.
GIRL, SHOW ME THAT BODY (OF WORK):
FLINTA* LITERATURE NIGHT #5
Focus and themes: Loss and its consequences, explored through Afro-German memory and translation, the ecological and emotional legacies of war and annihilation, processing the aftermath of sexual violence, remigration, and diasporic belonging.
Program: Four authors engage with fragments of displacement, denial, and erasure, reflecting on the consequences of violence in postwar societies and diasporic communities. How does colonial, institutional, ecological, and ideological violence persist in body, land, and city? What does it mean to return to home, language, or self when these are uncertain? Where does justice begin when institutions fail? Can remigration be reimagined not as a political slogan, but as a radical, self-determined choice?
Moderation: Fionnuala Kavanagh
GIRL, SHOW ME THAT BODY (OF WORK) is a project by FLINTA* Literatur, Berlin’s platform for migrant and exiled womxn artists, in cooperation with Lettrétage, funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, recommended by The Reader Berlin and presented by tip Berlin.
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Katarina Gotic Damiani
Katarina Gotic Damiani (Bosnia) is the author of we need a breathing tongue between (kith books, 2024) and leerlauf (forthcoming 2025). She has received the Berlin Senate’s Work Grant for Non-German Literature, the Research Grant for Translators, and funding for literary reading series. She is currently co-curating a Späti-based reading series on migration and working on an “associative translation” of Paul Celan’s Atemwende into her mother tongue(s).
Melody Makeda Ledwon
Melody Makeda Ledwon translates into and from German, English, and African American Language. As an editor and fiction copy editor, she also contributes her perspective and expertise to SAND Journal. Among other works, she (co-)translated Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 (btb, 2024), Angela Y. Davis: An Autobiography (Aki, 2023), and HALLO, UND TSCHÜSS, KOKO, COME IN (Theater der Welt, 2023).
Giuliana Kiersz
Giuliana Kiersz (1991, Buenos Aires) is a Berlin-based poet, playwright, librettist, and artist. Her work has received several national and international awards, including first prize in Todos los tiempos el tiempo (2024). Her work has been supported by institutions such as Akademie Schloss Solitude, Maxim Gorki Theater, and the Royal Court Theatre in London. Her book Luces blancas intermitentes (Rara Avis, 2018) received the Maison Antoine Vitez Prize and was published in France by Éditions Espaces 34 (2022). Most recently, the poetry-essay Your Language Is Lying to You was published by Duke University Press.
Ioana Cristina Casapu
Ioana Cristina Casapu (Romania) is a writer and artist. Her work, which includes novels, short prose, poetry, and intersectional conceptual interventions in English, German, and Romanian, explores the sexual politics of migration, social rupture, and loneliness. In 2024 she founded FLINTA* Literatur, Berlin’s platform for migrant and exiled FLINTA* authors.
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