Girls Like Us

12/11/2023

A question from the qu**rs in Palestine to us 🇵🇸

02/10/2023

Getting ready for feminist festival of design and publishing October 5-7 in Porto! We’ll be part of the book fair in great company with .adig and many more! Not to mention the incredible program of lectures and workshops 🥲🥲🥲 VERY MUCH L👀KING FORWARD 🤩

29/09/2023

Thank you everyone who came by and said hi, dove into our Disappointments issue and back catalogue, or were just generally cute! Thank you for making space to gather this weekend in Berlin! Thank you for sharing the table and a growing q***r pocket in the publishing world! Thank you for table sitting 🌸 Next weekend we’ll be in Porto for the feminist publishing festival / book fair Hope to see some of you there! 💜

21/09/2023

Berlin! Come and find us this weekend at book fair 💕 Our new Disappointment issue, many back issues and our great Disappointment tees + a special presence of 💚

09/06/2023

JOIN US FOR OUR FINAL LAUNCH EVENT AT NETWERK AALST!

PROGRAMME

Letters of Disappointment
15.00-18.00
writing workshop
register via [email protected]
The writing workshop ‘Letters of Disappointment’ takes as its point of departure the growing collection of letters of Dora García, that spawned the issue of Girls Like Us Magazine under the same title. Guided by Dutch writer Persis Bekkering, participants will work on a letter of their own, experiencing the mobilising potential of voicing disappointment.

Amor Rojo by Dora García
18.30-20.30
film screening and Q&A
voluntary contribution, reserve your tickets here
Can love also become a weapon? In Amor Rojo, Dora García uses the historical figure of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), a Marxist theorist and Soviet revolutionary, radical feminist, and s*x activist, as a guide to walk the labyrinth of female freedom and s*xual emancipation.

Closing drinks
20.30-22.00

27/05/2023

Wear your disappointmen!
Our new T shirt is now for sale
link in bio

Yours in disappointment,
The Girls Like Us editorial team

Pelumi Adejumo
Dagmar Bosma
Jessica Gysel
Katja Mater
Persis Bekkering
Dora García
Sara Kaaman
Yin Yin Wong

18/04/2023

Amsterdam! See you Thursday at San Serriffe! We can’t wait to see you all 💛💚💙

02/04/2023

Join us on Friday the 7th of April for the launch of our new issue Girls Like Us Issue #14 — Letters of Disappointment.

Program
17:00 - 19:00 Open readings from the Letters of Disappointment

GLU Issue #14 — Letters of Disappointment consists of 33 letters, bound together through their flavours of disappointment.

Edited by Pelumi Adejumo, Persis Bekkering, Dagmar Bosma, Dora García, Jessica Gysel, Sara Kaaman, Katja Mater & Yin Yin Wong

11/03/2023

WORD IS OUT
AND issue #14 LETTERS OF DISAPPOINTMENT soon as well!!

The feeling of disappointment is not only close to regret, sadness, and dissatisfaction – a feeling of loss, an uncomfortable space (or a painful gap) between expectations and reality – we also understand it as a rattling in the rusty machinery of a society whose fuel is extraction and oppression.
Considered an ‘ugly feeling’ by society’s norm, we’re not supposed to vocalize what and who is letting us down. We’re supposed to stay positive, get organized and act, instead of lingering in negative emotions. We’re supposed to be productive. But making space for disappointment can be a strategy of dissensus. Instead of wallowing in impotence, to make explicit what is not meeting expectations for this world can be an act of renouncing and making cracks in the status quo, while not giving up allegiance that another world is possible.
With contributions by

PREORDER NOW!

Editorial team:
Pelumi Adejumo, Persis Bekkering, Dagmar Bosma, Dora García, Jessica Gysel, Sara Kaaman, Katja Mater & Yin Yin Wong

Contributors:
Pelumi Adejumo
Clara Balaguer
Dagmar Bosma
Staci Bu Shea
Alba Clevenger
Athena Farrokhzad
Sharona Franklin
Maike Hemmers
Calla Henkel
Sara Kaaman
Alena Kolesnikova
Maoyi (Peixuan Qiu)
Katja Mater
Yelena Moskovich
Djuwa Mroivili
Sands Murray-Wassink
Raoni Muzho
Iarlaith Ni Fheorais
Ashley Nkechi Igwe
Milica Trakilović
Shola von Reinhold
Selma Selmani
Terre Thaemlitz
Yin Yin Wong
Anna Zvyagintseva
Sophie Zwertbroek
Joanna Walsh
Rosa Luxemburg
Yoyes Maria Dolores Gonzalez Katarain
Clara Zetkin
Alexandra Kollontai
Audre Lorde

10/03/2023

Tomorrow! Happy to kick ‘s first chapter of RESPONSES. Come & read with us about q***r & feminist utopias from the extended GIRLS LIKE US archives ❤️‍🔥

26/11/2022

Representing at ‘s Fancy Fanzine Fair starting now at - Come!

04/04/2022

Entertainment for the Adventurous Le***an 💜🖤

Meet the photographers who plotted the le***an erotic revolution

04/08/2021

After talking all summer about q***r spaces with Pop-Kultur Berlin, here's your chance to do some actual dancing! Some by and dance with us!

PS. There will be some issue available at the q***r Çaystube section of the festival

20/07/2021

WE JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH!

A 3 chapter conversation on q***r spaces & clubbing in collaboration with via link in bio 🦄

We invited some of our favourite organizers of q***r spaces to talk about how they do it. Talk about how they create these spaces for dancing, meeting and exchange online or irl. We wanted to get to know how they started and how they deal with the responsibility to create safer spaces and exchange strategies for that. We wanted to talk about how we can form collectives and find like minded people in this process. We wanted to exchange memories of sweaty nights on the dancefloor but also of lonely quarantine nights and not so lonely virtual meet-ups.

Chapter 1 – ._ about le***an* bars and the q***r club scene

Katarina Bonnevier & Therese Kristiansson from q***r architecture collective Mycket, who also guest edited our latest issue “When Walls Speak”. They dedicated the issue to their 7 year research into the concept of the q***r nightclub as a safer space and how to create rooms that support discussion, that inspire dreams and utopias.

Chapter 2 – and about q***r dancing futures and other fantasies

DJ Ilenia Arosio from Milan based collective TOMBOYS DON’T CRY and DJ Jesse Gravina from the Berlin based collective SieistguterJunge. We talk about the q***r dance and techno scene in Berlin and exchange experiences of online and offline dancing, DJing.

Chapter 3 – .app about virtual communities and q***r online spaces

Kell Rakowski, the founder and CEO at LEX, a text based q***r dating and social app that’s inspired by old newspaper personal ads from magazines like On Our Backs, a women-run erotica magazine of the ’80s and 90’s. We discuss online spaces and how they can help us form communities and finding friends and lovers and talk about what role social media and le$beans on TikTok, play in our q***r lives.

16/07/2021

Tonight! Join us 8pm for the premiere of our final conversation in the series “nighclubbing and q***r pop culture” ✨⚡ Together with Kell from LEX, the text based q***r dating app we discuss online spaces and how they can help us form communities and finding friends and lovers and talk about what role social media and le$beans on TikTok, play in q***r lives.
Cheer with us with a Lavender Iced Coffee 💜🥛 .app - link in bio 🔝

02/07/2021

Tonight at 20.00 hrs!

08/03/2021