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P.E.R.I.O.D. at Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin 2022
We had the pleasure to be screened at the 4th edition of Female Filmmakers Festival in Berlin on October 9th. The annual five day film event features screenings of international short & feature films of all genres as well as a hand-picked selection of music...
In Solidarity with Iranian Women
In solidarity with people in Iran 💪🔥 On the situation in Iran from Amnesty International:On 13 September 2022, Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini was arrested in Tehran by Iran’s so-called “morality” police. Eyewitnesses reported seeing her being violently beaten in a...
I got selected for Women Photograph
Back in Berlin, gathering all the memories from wonderful time spent close to nature. I feel like for the first time in my life I connected with nature so much - I used to take the trees, grass, animals around us for granted, moving on to focus on man-made art,...
P.E.R.I.O.D. awarded at Toronto International Women’s Film Festival Summer 2022
Toronto International Women's Film Festival awarded P.E.R.I.O.D. in the category "Best Music Video" in their Summer 2022 edition. The festival is sponsored by Toronto Film Magazine and Toronto Film Channel in Canada. Women are involved in the film industry in all...
Rethinking Sex
In her book “Rethinking sex” Christine Emba brings up these stories of sexual encounters:Have you experienced any of these:“1. Thinking that we should be having sex, even when we don’t really desire it, because that’s the impression society gives us - and thus seeing...
Girl Moss
Inspired by the quote from Daisy Alioto “The girl boss is dead, long live the girl moss (lying on the floor of the forest and being absorbed back to nature).” I think there’s been enough praising for pushing it through, leaning in and striving to become the most...
We’re the granddaughters of the witches you weren’t able to burn
On Friday June 24 2022 the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion.I'm reading a wonderful book by Silvia Federici Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women. She writes: “the restriction of women’s...
Miracle of Life
I‘m a bit more quiet lately, taking my time to enjoy the nature and wild creatures surrounding me in upstate New York, where I‘m visiting my boyfriend‘s family. It‘s a true cuteness overload: squirrels, chipmunks, bunnies, humming birds, fireflies and - top it up -...
What’s Your Pleasure?
I was thinking recently of how we tend to associate pleasure with something guilty, sinful, that has to be limited. Whereas it should be otherwise: if something brings you pleasure, and you don’t hurt anyone, why shouldn’t you have as much as you want of it? Wouldn’t...
P.E.R.I.O.D. in Wysokie Obcasy magazine!
I‘m super excited and honored to be featured in Polish nation-wide magazine Wysokie Obcasy with the P.E.R.I.O.D. music video! Wonderful journalist Paula Szewczyk interviewed me and wrote the article, summing up the ideas behind it. The whole article in my translation...
International Menstrual Hygiene Day 2022
May 28th is Menstrual Hygiene Day, but I would rename it to Menstrual Celebration Day. We should do what we can to start a public discussion on how to end period stigma and period poverty. 🔴 What you can do to help? 🔴 Watch our music video PERIOD and share with anyone...
Two Years After the First Bloody Victory Photo
It’s been two years since I took this photo and published it online to download for free on Unsplash.There were some victories on the way that I haven’t predicted: Scotland making period products available for free, Spain thinking of introducing period leave, more and...
Showing Midsummer Sisterhood at Rotterdam Photo
The 2022 edition of Rotterdam Photo Festival was unique - due to COVID-19 regulations the organizers couldn't have exhibited the works of the participants selected for the 2021 edition, so they decided to combine the 2021 and 2022 editions into one big XL event....
P.E.R.I.O.D. featured in Curated by Girls!
So happy that Curated by Girls featured P.E.R.I.O.D. music video on their site!"P.E.R.I.O.D is an art video by Berlin Boudoir, celebrating that time of the month, with a mission to draw attention to period poverty; a lack of access to menstrual products, which affects...
P.E.R.I.O.D. music video is live!
After over a year of preparations - it's live! Watch the video and listen to the song on Spotify/Apple Music. Share with friends and family, let’s #endperiodpoverty together ♥️🩸 The whole PERIOD story started from me reading a book by Emma Barnett and how she...
Cherry Blossom Sisterhood
“Our bare feet rooted in the cherry blossomed earth, the womb fire of women sharing their warmth, the air speckled with petals and laughter, and the flowing water of poses together and apart......what a morning of Springtime joys!!“ - Tam @bluewitch59 wrote this about...
20 Best Niche Lingerie & Loungewear Brands – Updated 2022
I’m a big lingerie fan and I believe it can do magic to your self-esteem.Why? 1) it’s hidden under your clothes, so you wear it just for yourself, not to prove anything to anyone else 2) even though it’s hidden, you remember about it and it’s a reminder that your body...
50 ways to celebrate all types of love on Valentine’s Day
Originally sent out as a newsletter - if you would like to get such posts ahead of everyone else, please subscribe to my newsletter on the bottom of the page.I know that Valentine’s Day can be cringy as f*ck!But let me introduce you to the way I see this: as an...
Selected Among 50 Brave of 2021 by Wysokie Obcasy Magazine
Dream come true thanks to Wysokie Obcasy and Katarzyna Seiler – to be among 50 Brave of 2021 makes me proud, honored and humbled. So many wonderful women and people, changing the world for better! I’m happy I can add my piece with Berlin Boudoir and showing women’s...
Berlin Boudoir Xmas Gifts Guide
Originally sent out as a newsletter - if you would like to get such posts ahead of everyone else, please subscribe to my newsletter on the bottom of the page.I’m happy to present you (pun intended) a curated list of gift ideas.I spent time searching for small, local...
Aphrodite in boudoir
An interview with me from Wysokie Obcasy Nr 12(1128)Above the cover of the printed magazine, below the interview written by Katarzyna Seiler, translated by me into English. If you read Polish you can scroll down to the scans of original interview in Polish or read it...
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