I am concerned to see how attempts are once again being made to restrict and censor freedom of art and science. It goes without saying that our goal must be to intersectionally combat discrimination. But not by abolishing spaces of discourse – on the contrary. Read more →
Digital, free of charge and open to all. On April 10, 2024, there will be our next film screening of FACES OF AN EXHIBITION: We will show the documentary on the work of our Pop-up Institute at our Campus Arts and Change of the Medical School Hamburg – including a Q&A session with collaborators. Be part of it! Read more →
Can art tell something about schizophrenia that language cannot express? FACES OF AN EXHIBITION is an immersive documentary that accompanies the first project of our Pop-Up Institute. A group of artists with and without schizophrenia experience create mental – an art festival on schizophrenia and against sanism. The documentary is now freely available. Read more →
Dismantle Sanism. On May 17, 2023, I will be holding a free digital workshop on sanism at the Medical School Hamburg. Sign up, drop in, and join the discussion on how we can make therapy and research more sensitive to discrimination. Read more →
Towards feminist research practices. Felicitas Kruschick and I just published our scientific article on knowledge equity and Open Science. The publication is part of the RIO special issue Bootstrapping the Open Science culture enabled by the Open Science Fellows Program by Wikimedia Germany. And of course, it’s Open Access. Read more →
Make things open, it makes them better. We just published our scientific article addressing diversity of editorial boards in social science. I’m so happy about this lovely postdisciplinary collaboration with Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher and Tamara Heck within the Open Science Fellow Program by Wikimedia Germany. The name speaks for itself: It’s completely open including Open Source and Open Access. Read more →
Sanism is everywhere but rarely talked about, in particular in therapy and science. This is why Lea Jungmann and I are doing this workshop for Disruption Network Lab at 19 October 2022. It‘s also a warming up for the upcoming conference MADNESS: Fighting for justice in mental health. Read more →
Gerade war ich Gästin beim RADIO FOLKWANG, dem Podcast des Museums Folkwang, und habe dort mit Annika Schank und Sarah Bockting über die Sammlung, Psychologie, Kunsttherapie und Mental Health gesprochen. Dabei haben wir uns so gut unterhalten, dass es schnell mal zwei Stunden und daraus zwei Folgen wurden. Hört rein. Read more →
Open ≠ equity. As a mentor in the Open Science Fellow Program and in collaboration with Wikimedia Germany, other mentors, and a fellow I created a learning unit on Knowledge Equity. It includes short video inputs on the Wikimedia Movement Strategy 2030, privilege and discrimination in research, inclusive education, social inequality in academia, and language diversity in research. Freely available as always. Read more →
It’s time for a critical comment on equality structures at small universities in Germany. In 2019, I was elected by the vote of all female university members (yes, the election regulations still see gender in a binary way) to be the equal opportunities representant of the HKS – University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Ottersberg. I am thankful for this trust that has been placed in me. This is one of the reasons why I would like to address structural deficiencies in my work and that of other equal opportunity representants. Read more →
