GIRL, SHOW ME THAT BODY (OF WORK) # 6

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 #6 SPECIAL EDITION FOCUS SOUTH AMERICA
Participants: Marie Álvarez, Camila Rhodi, Xueh Magrini Troll, Elsye Suquilanda
Moderation: tba

Focus and themes: Regeneration. South America has a long history—continuing to the present—of censorship. Many works have been removed from schools and libraries due to sexual content or political messages, including the alleged promotion of “un-American” ideas. This special edition focuses on South American posthumanist and transfeminist literature as a refuge and spiritual practice, centering community, ritual, and tenderness in the healing and liberation of the wounded female body.

Program: Four authors address medical neglect, patriarchal violence, displacement, and public mourning, affirming beauty, magic, and eroticism as forces of regeneration. They offer alternatives to Eurocentric narratives of identity and healing. The event asks: What does healing look like when a body bears the marks of violence and loss? How do South American feminist traditions enrich Berlin’s literary community? What new literary forms emerge when grief, humor, and anger are allowed to coexist as creative tools?

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