Media Diversified
Analysis. Stories. Aesthetics. By and from the diaspora.
Germany has been praised as an example of an open and diverse society but Karin Louise Hermes explains how the treatment of German footballers exposes deeper societal issues. Read More
Gouri Sharma reflects on the success of the first African literature festival in Berlin and how it has opened the door to more festivals of its kind in the city Read More
by Sinthujan Varatharajah A few days ago, I was sitting with a friend, we were casually chatting when I suddenly remembered that her father is a writer – as is my mother. I remembered that we somehow knew each other through our parents who again knew each other through diasporic writers’ circles. We laughed about… Read More
by Ella Achola “No, I meant where are you really from?” is a micro-aggression I am all too familiar with when my simple answer of “Berlin” is perceived as insufficient to a query that blatantly illustrates how my brown self is read as out of reach of possible German citizenship. It is usually asked with… Read More
by Zun Lee Read Part 1 of Fathering While Black Father absence was a personal double-whammy for me: I grew up with a Korean father who was married to my mother, lived at home with us, provided materially but was emotionally distant, and extremely physically abusive. From a census perspective, he’d be considered “present”, yet… Read More
