This podcast—led and produced by Miles Marshall, who is joined in discussion by Mimi Norton de Matos and Maggie O’Brien—examines our Queer Berlin Walking Tour with Jared Pool of Critical Tours. This tour explores Berlin’s gay neighborhood, Schöneberg; the El Dorado, one of Berlin’s oldest gay and trans* bars that was frequented by openly gay Nazi SA leader Ernst Röhm; the Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted by the Nazis; the life of Magnus Hirschfeld and Christopher Isherwood; and more. 

Hailing from the city of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Miles is a rising junior at Colorado College majoring in Feminist & Gender Studies and minoring in Studio Art and potentially minoring in Environmental Studies. Miles is extremely excited to spend three weeks in Berlin, hoping to acquire a liking for beer while there. At Colorado College, Miles is the chair of Equal, a safe space for queer and questioning folk, they are a member of SOSS, the student organization for sexual safety, and they can be found baking bread, dying their hair, and going on bikes rides around Colorado Springs.

Queer Berlin Walking Tour

This podcast—led and produced by Mekael Daniel, joined in discussion by Nizhooni Hurd and Maysie Poland—examines our graffiti workshop at Mauer Park along the Berlin Wall with Berlin Massive. Founded in 2004, Berlin Massive is an association of hip hop graffiti writers, beatboxers, rappers, B-Boys, B-Girls, designers, songwriters, and DJs that develops cultural and educational projects, organizes jams and battles, gives workshops and seminars, and other activities primarily at schools and in youth centers.

Mekael is a 21-year-old rising senior from Denver, CO majoring in Feminist & Gender Studies and minoring in Chinese Language at Colorado College. She is the youngest of five children and is an avid artist who enjoys many mediums from painting to dancing. She likes to think about things, such as her subjectivity as a Black woman, and to channel her thoughts into art. In her free time, she likes to meditate (i.e., do nothing), read, and sleep.

Graffiti Workshop with Berlin Massive

This podcast—led and produced by Zivia Berkowitz, joined in discussion by Samuel Vang and Bella Staal—examines our session with KAy of Trans*sexworks, a peer-to-peer support structure and a network for and made up of trans*sex workers that provides counseling, training sessions on transgender sex work, professionalization workshops, and HIV/AIDS prevention workshops, among other activities.

Zivia is Feminist and Gender Studies major in the class of 2022, who was born and raised Montclair, NJ. She has been fortunate enough to travel throughout her life, but her time with the #FemGeniusesinBerlin is her first extended stay in Europe and studying abroad. Back at Colorado College, Zivia is a member of the diving team, and she can often be found in the jewelry studio creating or teaching her copper enameling class.

Trans*sexworks

This podcast—led and produced by Caroline Livaditis, joined in discussion by Alexander Jobin-Leeds and Nicole Berlanga—examines our tour of the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, which recently opened in September 2017 under the creative leadership of Yasha Young.

Caroline is a sophomore at Colorado College, originally from Chicago, IL. She was born second generation into a Greek-American family, and grew up surrounded by both this environment, as well as the strongly contrasted one of the alternative school she attended on Chicago’s north side. Caroline’s background motivated her to continue gaining the perspective that the wider global community offers, and in 2015 she lived as a student in Berlin with the additional goal of learning German. Caroline hopes to continue widening her perspective through meaningful travel, and plans on visiting every country in the world.

Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art

This podcast—led and produced by Matthew FitzGibbon, who is joined in discussion by Avia Hailey and Lauren Hough—examines our Graffiti & Street Art Walking Tour with Declan. This tour covers some of the latest, greatest and oldest examples of street art, graffiti, and mural art, as well as the history of underground art, artists, and art communities in Berlin.

Matt is from Chicago, IL, and is a rising senior at Colorado College, where he majors in Film & Media Studies. In his free time, he likes to spend a lot of time outdoors, especially rock climbing and skateboarding. He also likes to sew clothing. When he’s home in Chicago, he loves to go to art museums, bike with friends, and see live music.

Graffiti & Street Art Walking Tour

Podcasts published here were produced by Colorado College students, affectionately known as the #FemGeniusesinBerlin, enrolled in Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives: Intersectionality Studies Berlin, a study abroad course taught by Dr. Heidi R. Lewis, Director and Associate Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies.