Strictly Business #44: Beliban zu Stolberg

März 4th, 2025

Strictly Business #44: Beliban zu Stolberg

Writing as a craft, a job, and a way to connect—Beliban zu Stolberg shares her journey through prose, screenwriting, and the realities of working in the arts. A conversation on storytelling, struggles, and why culture matters. 🎬📖✨

This is also a glimpse into who you’ll meet in our BIWOC* Rising space—powerful creatives like Beliban, shaping culture and pushing boundaries. Thank you, Beliban, for enriching our physical space and now also sharing your experiences and insights with our online community!

‚Strictly Business‘ is our monthly series on Instagram, where BIW*oC and TIN*BIPOC introduce themselves, their business/project, and their personal journey. Stay tuned for the next one! 🫂

Strictly Business #41: Canan Turan

Januar 29, 2025

With a strong background in film studies and filmmaking, Canan started to speak out about the issue of discrimination, exclusion and othering in the film and festival industry, after many negative experiences as a director and producer of documentaries.

Strictly Business #15: Lisa N’Paisan

Dezember 6, 2021

Having watched my Vietnamese and Thai immigrant parents work hard to grow their fashion business, I was inspired to quit my full-time job and move overseas. I am now a QWOC founder of Not Too Sweet, a stainable brand selling vintage…

Strictly Business #08: Lina Lam

Dezember 15, 2020

I discovered yoga at the beginning of my studies. Since then I have never quit. It has given me a new sense of life, because through yoga I have come to know myself better and have learned what true self-love means.

INTERSECTIONAL WORK & SOCIAL CLUB

BIWOC* Rising is the first intersectional work & social club in Berlin and Germany. This safer space is exclusively for women, trans, inter and non-binary people who identify as Black, indigenous or of Colour! Through training programs, empowerment workshops, and a work-desk in the heart of Berlin-Kreuzberg, BIWOC* Rising is creating a new working culture – a working culture that transcends the white, homogenous, capitalist one that has been a core driver of gentrification and marginalization in Berlin.