FemGeniuses

FemGeniuses primarily showcases work that is created by students in feminist and gender studies courses at Colorado College.

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Under the Berlin Wall with Berliner Unterwelten by Elie Deshommes and Elliot Triplett

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Die Mauer asisi Panorama by Jordan Fields and Gabby Rogan

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A Day in the Life of the #FemGeniusesinBerlin by Barbara Bilić and Gabby Rogan

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The German Resistance Memorial by Marisa Diaz Bonacquisti and Talulah Geheim

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Jewish History Walking Tour with Adam Schonfeld by Brailey Harris and Emma Fowkes

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A Day in the Life of the #FemGeniusesinBerlin by Noor Issa and Nova Yu

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The Neues Museum by Kaléa Daniels and Glorie Michelle Romero Elvir Enamorado

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German Colonialism Walking Tour with Josephine Apraku by Katharin Luckey and Ella Simons

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A Street Art Workshop with Berlin Massive

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Queer Berlin Walking Tour w/ Mal Pool + the Schwules*Museum

Queer Berlin Walking Tour w/ Mal Pool + the Schwules*Museum

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A Conversation with Judy Lynne Fisher

A Conversation with Judy Lynne Fisher

by Riley Hester Photo Credit: Dr. Heidi R. Lewis Since the beginning of this course, Course Associate and former student of Dr. Heidi R. Lewis, Judy Lynne Fisher, has comforted me as a student new to Feminist and Gender Studies. As we spoke during our first class session on Black and transnational feminisms, I sat quietly in my seat, quickly realizing how naïve I was in my previous thinking about…

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Graffiti & Street Art Walking Tour + the Urban Nation Museum

Graffiti & Street Art Walking Tour + the Urban Nation Museum

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A Conversation with Dana Maria Asbury, Mona El Omari, and Iris Rajanayagam

A Conversation with Dana Maria Asbury, Mona El Omari, and Iris Rajanayagam

by Vicente Blas Taijeron Photo Credit: Vicente Blas Taijeron Life is a confusing, happy, sad, and beautiful thing all at once. Our paths in life bring us joy and heartbreak, and somehow we learn to navigate them and pivot when needed. On Friday, we got to learn about the experiences of navigating life’s nuances through the perspectives of Mona El Omari, Iris Rajanayagam, and Dana Maria Asbury.…

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Blackness in America and Europe: Where the Grey Space Exists

Blackness in America and Europe: Where the Grey Space Exists

by Monica Carpenter Photo Credit: Dr. Heidi R. Lewis The Black experience has never been uniformed, but being in Berlin and studying a different part of the Diaspora outside the U.S. has made it clear how intricate and vast it is. The complexities of Black identity and justice I want to explore have been primarily inspired by the work and wisdom of Mumbi Nkonde, Mitchell Esajas, Jasmin Eding, and…

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The Wall Museum + the Berliner Unterwelten Tour

The Wall Museum + the Berliner Unterwelten Tour

by Margalit Goldberg Photo Credit: Margalit Goldberg I think I romanticize the Cold War too much. Or maybe the right word is not “romanticize,” but the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C. and podcasts about ridiculous CIA covert operations have led me to believe the Cold War was mostly just for show—a ridiculous period when tremendous amounts of money and manpower were put into ideas and…

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A Conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo

A Conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo

by Latra Demaci  

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German Colonialism Walking Tour w/ Josephine Apraku + the Neues Museum

German Colonialism Walking Tour w/ Josephine Apraku + the Neues Museum

by Amalia Lopez Photo Credit: Dr. Heidi R. Lewis On Tuesday, we attended a colonialism walking tour in one of Berlin’s thirty “African Quarters” in the neighborhood of Wedding with Josephine Apraku. The tour focused on several locations—including Ghanastraße, Petersallee, and Mockingbird square—where we discussed who and what had been memorialized by those names. This was especially relevant to…

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