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Reading and Performance

At the fourth FLINTA* Literature Night of the reading and performance project “Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work)”, on October 2025 at the Lettrétage, authors Lili Khoury, Moira Morgulis, Tamar Raphael, and FLINTA* Literatur founder Ioana Cristina Casapu will read from texts that center feminist literature as a force for democracy.

Feminism has long had an ambivalent relationship with democracy, as Michele Estrin Gilman argues in ‘Feminism, Democracy and the War on Women’ (2014). Anti-feminist narratives, often spread by the radical right, fuel anti-democratic movements. How does literature shape democratic development? How can it affirm the value of the underrepresented? How can literature be sustained as a force for equality in our lives?

Event language: Readings in English, German, Hebrew, Romanian and Spanish

Moderation: Ambika Thompson, The Reader Berlin

Tamar Raphael was born in 1989 in Petach Tikvah, Israel, and currently resides in Berlin. Her first book, a poetry collection titled Receding Songs, published in 2021, won her the Ministry of Culture Award for Young Poets. Her debut novel, There Were Two with Nothing to Do, published in 2024, was received with rave reviews and won the Brener Award’s honorable mention for a debut novel. Her poems and short stories have been published in a variety of journals, including Granta, Hava LeHaba, and Moznayim.

Lili Khoury is a German/Palestinian poet and feminist activist from Berlin. She has been performing her poems at political and literary events for several years, including at the Women 7 Summit of the German Women’s Council with Chancellor Scholz (2022), at Fair Share of Women Leaders (2023), at the Neuköllner Kapital and at the Poetic Hafla at Lettrétage (2023- 2024).

Ioana Cristina Casapu is a Romanian author and journalist whose works have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and magazines in English and Romanian. She made her debut in 2016 with the novel Deviații de Stereo (Casa de Pariuri Literare, Bucharest), which was published in 2019 under the title Heart Beats: A Memoir of The Millennial Generation on Social Media (German title: Herzklopfen: Eine Millennial-Generation über soziale Medien). In her writing, she explores independent ideas on feminism, migration, politics, and the solitude of life in European metropolises. Her latest book, Berliner Tagebuch. Die Geschichte meiner inneren Mauer, will be published on September 26, 2025 by KLAK Verlag.

Moira Morgulis (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991) is a writer, musician, singer, and teacher currently based in Berlin. She has released her own songs and performs live. She is also a voice-over artist, dubbing actress, and journalist, having worked in radio and written articles for digital media. The author of two poetry collections (Una voz imperfecta, 2020; Tantas cosas podrían crecer acá, 2024), she is currently working on her third book.

Ambika Thompson (they/them) is a Berlin-based writer and musician. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph (2019), served as fiction editor at SAND Journal (2022–2025), and, since 2024, teach creative writing and are Managing Director of The Reader Berlin.

“Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work)” is a FLINTA* Literatur project by Ioana Cristina Casapu in cooperation with Lettrétage. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute Berlin. Presented by taz. Recommended by The Reader Berlin. Founded as a grassroots initiative in 2024, the project has since engaged 36 cultural workers, many of whom are women, queer, migrant or displaced.

FLINTA* Literatur is an initiative dedicated to promoting inclusion, diversity and equal participation in literature and culture. FLINTA* Literature focuses on the voices of FLINTA* authors (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people) with experiences of migration and discrimination in their physically anchored reality of life, makes marginalized voices visible, questions social narratives and promotes social cohesion.