Noah Gokul (they/them) is a Queer multi-disciplinary artist, healing educator, and activist interested in creating liberated worlds through art, storytelling, and care. They work for the Institute for the Development of Human Arts, a transformative mental health training institute, and have participated in a number exhibitions, performances, art collectives, and speaking engagements in Berlin and across the U.S.
Ararat collective was founded by Armenians in Berlin following the 44-day war against Artsakh by Azerbaijan in 2020. Artsakh has since been destroyed with the entire Armenian population displaced from their ancestral homelands, but the struggle against imperialism, fascism, patriarchy and their Pan-Turkish variants continues.
Dr. Lara Werkstetter has been working for the last 10 years in her own practise as a psychotherapist and has specialised for many years as therapeutic support for trans people
Adrienne Teicher is a transfeminine artist working at the nexus of sound, music, body performance and text. You can follow her adventures at adri99.net and her duo HYENAZ at hyenaz.com
Photo: Eleni Derveni
Nadja Vancauwenberghe is a trained sociologist who started her journalism career at the AFP Moscow bureau. She reported from the Chechnya war, before moving to Berlin in 2001, where she co-founded Exberliner magazine (today the Berliner) and led its editorial desk for 21 years. Today she writes, teaches journalism and runs the exBlicks film+discusson series.
https://www.instagram.com/nadjavancauw
Damineh Vaezpous-Semnani is a member of SVU and co founder of unframe. She studied law with a special focus on criminology.
William Baker Morrison is a Berlin-based data educator. He is the creator of 'Narratives of Hate' (narrativesofhate on Instagram), a project aimed at illuminating historical and contemporary expressions of hatred towards others from politicians and public figures.