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Here is an image of Yesim sitting in front of a piano looking cool.

Ping Pong, Hayat, & the art of the staying alive: talking to Yeşim Duman

October 27, 2024 Recently I had the chance to sit down with COVEN friend Yeşim Duman to have a coffee in the sunlight to talk about the current iteration of…

A collage of barrier methods for sex (gloves, a condom, a dental dam, with 90s US headlines over top, which urge teenagers not to have sex or lament the teen birth rate. The artist's teen doodles are visible in the background.

Teenage Dreams and Political Nightmares: An Interview with Charlie Jeffries

Ki Niehaus of COVEN Berlin interviews historian Charlie Jeffries about her 2022 book “Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars”.

Ecology of Care: COVEN BERLIN and DoLess collective explore collective art practice

In July 2023, COVEN and DoLess, an international well-being and resilience artistic collective, organized and produced a week-long explorative artistic research laboratory and residence. DoLess art collective has evolved from a series of creative workshops aimed at Belarusians during 2020-2023. They have held over 70 events with a total of 1700 participants.

Multiple posters for concerts and events are wheat pasted to a wall. A poster for On Rape is visible in the middle, with the black text superimposed over a white wedding dress.

On Rape, Gender and Complexity at C/O Berlin

Laia Abril’s On Rape – And Institutional Failure is a small exhibition packed with written information, occupying the front three rooms of the upstairs gallery space at C/O Berlin.

Watercolor of two trans bodies floating together in water. One pink being with long hair floating butt to the sun over a purple sting ray. One being light lemon green lavender and pink with furry legs on their back with seaweed floating between their crotch and being touched on their stomach by a tentacle. The water is dark blue and grey and filled with seaweed.

Holy Rebirth of a Youthful Pilgrim

We kiss and slowly undress, as we impatiently caress and taste each other’s bodies like two starved pilgrims at the end of their long walking day. We are both sweating a lot. Our bodies are hot with desire. I feel like a scallop floating in the ocean, soaked in the holy water of desire and touch.

A multilayered collage that appears like a school book where somebody stuck a finger through its pages and left a deep hole. Contains an image of Kirsten Dunst in the movie The Virgin Suicides

From Lehrte to Berlin: The Need for a Poetics of Puberty

The feeling that stayed with me after finishing Kleinstadtnovelle was not that puberty itself is the problem, but the hostile conditions in which it is supposed to happen.

This is a still from the film 'The Creep' by the artist Melanie Jame Wolf, featuring her body riding a gymnastics vault as though it were a horse. Here we only see her middle as she holds the reins on this vault.

Creeping with Melanie Jame Wolf

Long-beloved by COVEN BERLIN since we began, artist and performer Melanie Jame Wolf opened her largest solo exhibition to date last October titled The Creep, curated by Adriana Tranca at E-WERK…

An image of two outlines of faces above a torso. There are arrows indicating movement and their mouths are open.

The 5 Ws of Having a Threesome

When considering having a threesome, there are five very important questions you should ask yourself to have the hottest and most fun experience possible for all parties involved.

Two memes featuring an animated person with short dark hair gesturing at a yellow butterfly. On the left, the meme labels the person "trans bbs" and the butterfly "bog trees", with the bottom caption reading "U my gender?" On the right, the same image labels the person "artists" and the butterfly "bogs" with the caption reading "U have body?"

Bog conjunct neptune – dreams and jeopardy

i see trees falling as they cannot ground/roots can’t hold onto anything /that would give them stability

Tumblr user with false horns and a text collage displaying the words "part boy part god" over the demigender flag

QTGRL.Me Girlonline At The End of An Era

The internet in the 2010’s was a very special time and place to come of age as a trans woman. It was right at the end of old systems of categorization and identification, as well as the old internet.