»Difficult Women« combines more than twenty stories about a diverse set of women that reflect female realities. What unites the texts is the protagonists’ quest for independence, their ability to act and resilience. »One of the book’s greatest achievements is Gay’s psychological acuity.« [Washington Post] Together with Alice Hasters, author
Hinemoana Baker is of Maori descent, writes her texts in the Maori language and performs them as a lyricist and singer-songwriter. In her poems, traditionally familyoriented values of Maori culture meet the selfassertion of the individual. Most recently, »Funkhaus« was published. »From Lake Geneva to Waitangi, Berlin to Ihumātao, Funkhaus
Louise Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, tells in her Pulitzer Prize 2021 winning novel »The Night Watchman« how her grandfather carried the protest against the dispossession of Native Americans from rural North Dakota to Washington. »A masterful epic. After reading it, one is deeply
Two authors, two essay memoirs in which the human body plays a central role: Billy-Ray Belcourt, a member of the Driftpile Creek Nation, writes about grief, colonial violence, queerness, love, happiness, and sex in his essay »A History of My Brief Body« [2020], while Toni Jensen, herself Métis, addresses various
La Matosa is located in the middle of the Mexican countryside. Violence, prostitution, and drug trafficking shapes everyday life here. In a breathless style and with a language as raw as that of the protagonists themselves, Fernanda Melchor describes life in this desolate place in her second novel, which was
A rocky island casts its shadow over the mainland and its inhabitants for centuries. Against this backdrop, Evie Wyld’s feminist ghost story, »The Bass Rock«, reveals a dark tale of several generations of women in distress and the strange happenings in a house on the Scottish coast. »Balancing a superbly
Poet, artist, and philosophy lecturer Daniela Catrileo has been committed to Mapuche rights for years as a member of the feminist collective »Rangiñtulewfü«. Together with Toni Jensen, who belongs to the Métis and published a volume of memoir essays on indigenous women’s lives in 2020, she sheds light on the
Mick and Gabriel are »Brothers«. But they don’t know each other or their father, who returned to Senegal after they were conceived. Jackie Thomae reads from her novel, which won the 2020 Düsseldorf Literature Prize, at the JVA for Women Lichtenberg. »How can you write about men so accurately and
Elvira Dones focuses on the fate of Albanian women who fall into the clutches of the Albanian mafia in search of a better life, and that of young men who become perpetrators. A novel about the trafficking of women, forced prostitution, and boundless violence that has sparked heated debate in
Gender equality would improve social, financial, and environmental conditions for everyone in the world. That’s the thesis of Linda Scott, professor emerita of entrepreneurship and innovation at Oxford University, whose book examines the role of women in the global economy. »A comprehensive scholarly analysis ― and at the same time
A young lawyer observes the trial of individuals who murdered women in the Amazon. Sober in her description of the acts of violence, escalating in the protagonist’s fantasies of revenge, Patrícia Melo paints a picture of a society in which hatred of women is part of the system. »Mulheres Empilhadas«
born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader was driven into exile by the Apartheid regime in 1984. He studied music at Rhodes University in South Africa and at the California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles. In 1988 he settled in Berlin, where he founded the
