»Sie verziehen keine Miene, dann kann es ja nicht so schlimm sein.«

"They don't make a face, so it can't be that bad "

Get-together, readings & performance on endometriosis & the gender pain gap

on Sunday, 8.9. as part of the
KALKAIRS at Kulturhof Kalk e.V.

Program

15.00 Coffee & cake
with the Endometriosis Initiative Cologne

17.00 Reading & performance
Suse Itzel: Between Death & Angel
Miedya Mahmod: Saying it worse behind your tongue
Helen Brecht/ Hanna Schörken / Maria Babusch: Trotting or hope does not protect against madness

Our concern:

Draw attention! Female readers often experience that their pain or other disturbing sensations are not taken seriously by medical professionals. The disparity in the recognition of pain between women and men has a name: the gender pain gap. Especially when pain occurs during menstruation, it is still taboo and normalized. Endometriosis sufferers, for example, only receive a diagnosis after an average of seven and a half years. Statistics on how BIPoC with menstrual pain fare have not even been collected.