When Women Say “Ta-Ta” to Ta-Tas
An anthropologist fighting cancer navigates the social pressure to get breast reconstruction after a mastectomy. ✽ “I’ve decided to go flat.” I said these words aloud for the…
An anthropologist fighting cancer navigates the social pressure to get breast reconstruction after a mastectomy. ✽ “I’ve decided to go flat.” I said these words aloud for the…
Im Sommer 2025 konnten viele Christopher-Street-Day-Paraden nur unter massivem Polizeischutz stattfinden. Bereits im Vorfeld wurden sie von rechten, gewaltbereiten Gruppierungen bedroht. Damit wird ge…
Was passiert nach dem Gender Studies Studium? Lässt sich von den Inhalten und Werten aus dem Studium überhaupt etwas in der Arbeitswelt anwenden oder sind meine Schlussfolgerungen aus…
An anthropologist explores how the COVID-19–era surgical face mask went from a health precaution to a fashion choice among women in Peshawar, Pakistan. ✽ ON A HOT AFTERNOON…
In this live discussion with Agustín Fuentes about his new book, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary, the Princeton University professor shares his groundbreaking examination…
An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of food processing and dietary diversity—practices often led by women—that were just as crucial to humans surviving and thriving as hunting. ✽…
A blood test can reveal important information about your risk of breast cancer — but the law hasn’t fully caught up with its consequences. BRCA1 and BRCA2 –…
I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair […] The post She braids, I listen appeared…
Der Aufstieg des Faschismus erfasst ganz Europa wie in einem Sturm: Eins nach dem anderen geraten die Länder des alten Kontinents in die Falle, rechtsextreme, populistische, demokratiefeindliche Mensc…
Many people assume that queer rights movements are primarily about acceptance or visibility. But this perspective risks reducing queerness to a plea for recognition within the boundaries of…
This dreamy poem of trans~formation was written in an attempt to envision a trans materialist utopia. In these verses, we find ourselves at the beginning of this emergence;…
Public spaces are shaped by us and, in turn, they shape us. Too often, however, they are commodified, reduced to grids and coordinates designed for control, measurement, and…
Wie könnte eine von Transmaterialist*innen veränderte Gesellschaft aussehen? Auf diese Frage haben die Studierenden im studentischen Projekttutorium “Transmaterialism – an Introduction” im Somme…
A linguistic anthropologist explores the queer Ballroom scene in San Juan—and how performers are incorporating critiques of colonialism into the art form. “READING” ABOUT HER FASHION I look…
In this series we invite anthropologists to share stories of growth, change, and discovery throughout their careers. By reflecting on the life choices that shaped them, the unexpected…
Die Tätigkeit in städtischen Senatsverwaltungen erschien mir immer sehr trocken, extrem bürokratisch und langweilig, doch ist sie das zwangsläufig auch? Die Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Arbeit, Sozia…
George Floyd, an African American man, was murdered by a white police officer on May 25, 2020, after being suspected of using a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. This incident…
Hemangini Gupta‘s Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…
This blog post is part of the Seminar Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience, April 10, 2025, funded by the WARFUN project. Commenting on my research for the WarFun project,…
Im vergangenen Wintersemester haben sich Studierende der Gender Studies und Rechtswissenschaften auf die Spuren von vergessenen Jurist*innen begeben. In dem Seminar „(Rechts-)Geschichte neu schreiben:…
Amid a goddess worship revival, some feminists are revering the mother of Jesus as a deity, defying Christian doctrines and confronting the use of Mary as a handmaiden…
The literary studies podcast nordlitt has been produced at the Institute for Northern European Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since winter 2020. It stems from the desire not…
Episode 11 (dts. & engl.): Wechselwirkungen: Perspektiven der Gender Studies nach der Bundestagswahl. Yumin Li im Gespräch mit Tunay Altay, Beate Binder und Patrick Wielowiejski
Looking at the way people divide work in hunter-gatherer societies can tell us something about the evolutionary origins of gender roles. When it comes to the division of…