GIRL, SHOW ME THAT BODY (OF WORK) # 5

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
Event language: English

Participants: Katarina Gotic, Melody Makeda Ledwon, Giuliana Kiersz, Ioana Cristina Casapu

Moderation: Fionnuala Kavanagh

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?

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.