A podcast for all things bookish, especially feminist literatures and literatures of color, Have you read…? is produced by Berlin’s Charlott Schonwetter. We recently sat down to talk about what I do in libraries and anti-racism work as well as other things on my mind. Thank you to Charlott for having me. Have a listen […]
Warum Bibliotheksmitarbeiter*innnen mit Migrationshintergrund unabdingbar sind: die Folien von meiner Vortrag auf dem Bibliothekskongress 2019 über meine Studie im VÖBB (Verbund Öffentlicher Bibliotheken Berlin) sind nun online. PDF Download: https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bib-info/frontdoor/index/index/searchtype/collection/id/16963/docId/16616/start/3/rows/20 Why immigrant & POC library workers are crucial for libraries: slides from my talk at Germany’s annual library conference, about my study in Berlin’s public […]
Migration prägt zunehmend unsere Gesellschaft und somit die öffentliche Bibliotheken. Gut, dass auf dem Bibliothekskongress nächste Woche wird die interkulturelle Öffnung thematisiert wird. Sowohl von mir und meinen Kolleginnen aus anderen Bibliotheken im Programm 360° der Kulturstiftung des Bundes als auch von der dbv Kommission Interkulturelle Bibliotheksarbeit. Sie sind von uns herzlich eingeladen, an folgende […]
For two weeks in September, I will work as an artist-in-residence in a storefront at Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin. You are welcome to visit this temporary, open studio with a community kitchen for conversations about food and migration. The old German saying “The farmer won’t eat what he doesn’t know” implies that it’s normal to be […]
Inspired by the North Sea island of Juist, a windswept place where Berlin-based pattern designer Anke Wulffen has been spending summer weeks away from the mainland world of cars and bustle since her childhood, Ahoi: Seaside Sweaters is a new e-book that I describe as knit-erature. Anke blends travel writing, memoir, photography and five new […]
If you’ve ever tried to learn a foreign languages, or observed how languages are mixing in Berlin’s neighborhoods (“Jalla! Ich bin Görli!”) you are warmly invited to a language workshop inspired by my recent experiences with Hawaii Pidgin English: as part of TONGUE – Participative Art Project on Everyday Language at the Akademie der ZUsammenKUNFT Friday, […]
A pickled herring rolled around a cucumber pickle, fastened with funny wooden picks. That’s a rollmops! I just pulled one from a jar of brine, cold from the fridge… While enjoying what I consider to be a quintessential German snack, I wondered if the name (a mashup of the German roll, as in the verb “roll,” and […]
“Local time” is a new series within the blog about my current transition from Berlin to Honolulu. Still fresh from the plane and caught between time zones, cultures and stages of my life, I find myself reflecting on the past eight years of becoming a local in Berlin and, looking ahead, wondering how I’ll relate to American culture and local ways in […]
Potato salad is the perfect summer food: it’s cool, it’s fresh, it goes well with sausages and watching soccer. But what goes into the potato salad? That is the question. For me, part of integrating into German culture these past eight years has meant gradually shifting my taste in potato salad from American (favoring ingredients like peas, […]
This first week of June, things are feeling summery and full of changes at my studio. For one, I’ve temporarily moved to a studio collective in Mitte for the month, after the Multiverso studio collective closed its doors in May. This Monday, I celebrated my first day (Einstand) in the traditional German manner by bringing my colleagues something sweet — strawberries from one […]
