Conversations about blood, pain and self-determination

It's everyday life, love, pain and resistance. Women bleed. Bleed every day, whether literally or figuratively, as "working mums", in care work because the cycle demands it, as victims of violence or simply as people who do not conform to social norms.
The blood flows: when we are not pregnant again or fortunately not pregnant, when we have had an abortion or just given birth, when we were too loud at home or not quick enough on the way home at night, when the menopause announces itself or we don't feel the desire to have children and are offended by it ...

In "bluten" , 15 female authors talk about struggles and resistance in their texts, rebel, sometimes write gently, sometimes disturbingly, wittily and differently about the everyday nature of bleeding: about poverty in old age, violence, being (not) a mother, menstruation, menopause, the struggle for a right to exist and fair treatment in the world of work. This is our daily blood. This anthology is an outburst and a breath. It is harsh reality and boundless fantasy.

Lydia Haider was born in 1985 and lives as a freelance writer in Vienna and Berlin. She studied German and philosophy and has received numerous awards and scholarships. A voice of Austrian literature that is second to none.

Jacinta Nandi was born in East London in 1980, the daughter of a British Indian and a northern English communist and feminist. She has lived in Berlin since 2000, where she works as an author, columnist, reading stage member and co-founder of a PoC artists' collective. She is a single mother of two sons and lives in Berlin-Lichtenrade.

Chantal-Fleur Sandjon is an Afro-German author, editor and process facilitator. She is the winner of the German Youth Literature Prize 2023. As an author and spoken word artist, she is particularly interested in the multi-layered representation of Black life in Germany, writing in the past, present and future. She has been teaching at Humboldt University Berlin and Goethe University Frankfurt since 2024. In 2025, she curated the children's and youth program of the Stuttgart Literature Festival.

More information can be found here: KulturAbend: Conversations about blood, pain and self-determination - Dussmann - Das Kulturkaufhaus