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Aug. 8, 2017 – You won't find them on Bravo, but you might see The Real Housewives of Neukölln onstage in Berlin: Collapsella (Fábio M Silva), Cheryl Offoffoff-Broadway...

Aug 10, 2017 – While some bemoan this month as the Sommerloch, fans of contemporary dance and performance art can only complain about an overabundance of options. Every year,...

Aug. 4, 2017 – Gender-nonconforming writer, educator and performance artist Alok Vaid-Menon has been making waves internationally since their work in DarkMatter, a...

Jul. 25, 2017 – Another year, another Yo! Sissy and another line-up of queer talent I’m deeply unfamiliar with. But enough about me. With the capital’s festival season...

Jul. 13, 2017 – “You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you.” Pride is defined as a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own...

Jul. 4, 2017 – Olympia Bukkakis is less interested in her cheekbones than in the contours of social stratification. She spoke to SIEGESSÄULE about her busy Pride month –...

Jun. 26, 2017 – By all accounts, International Workers' Day in Berlin came and went without major incident this year. Most of the streets in Kreuzberg were closed for MyFest,...

Jun. 20 – Although it doesn’t mention the biological orifice by name, Sado Opera’s latest tune "Imaginarium" is inspired by the cloaca – the hole that birds use for...

Jun. 13, 2017 – After seven years in prison, Chelsea Manning walked free on May 17 (coincidentally also the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia), thanks...

Jun. 6, 2017 – Berlin has no shortage of film festivals, but has there been one dedicated to feminist horror? Well, there is now: Final Girls Berlin is taking place...

May 30, 2017 – News apps' notifications are essential to me, although they mostly inflict concerns about loved ones in Syria, and they never fail to reveal my anxious...

May 22, 2017 – Molly Nilsson is one of Berlin’s most life-affirming songwriters. The Swedish singer met with Joey Hansom in the smoking section of the penthouse café...

May 16, 2017 – French pop singer Gérald Kurdian is using his body to talk about the body – and not your garden variety homo sapiens, but rather a revolutionary non-binary...

May 9, 2017 – Berlin can handle things big or small, but it’s the small that really gives the city its character – like Xposed, taking place this month at indie cinema...

May 2, 2017 – The words “queer” and “refugee” are all the rage at the moment. Put them together and you’ve got yourself a preliminary idea for an exhibition at the Schwules...

Apr. 25, 2017 – If you spot a fire on the night of April 30, good chance it's a cop car that's been torched by a radical leftist. The night before International Workers' Day...

Apr. 20, 2017 – Since moving uptown to the lovely suburb of Prenzlauer Berg, I find myself often drinking flat whites where Oderburger meets Benauer Straße. After buying Senf...

Apr. 11, 2017 – The Christian holiday of Easter has a particularly unholy tradition in Berlin. Around here, it's more about celebrating erections than resurrections. The Berlin...

Apr. 4, 2017 – As a wise Bon Jovi once said: it's all the same – only the names will change. We spoke with Michelle Gurevich, the artist formerly known as Chinawoman, of...

Mar. 28, 2017 – Footage of Kreuzberg from the 80s looks as if the place was in a constant state of revolt, people out on the street in numbers that look, in contemporary...