Awareness Workshop: Speaking without Othering

Mai 26th, 2025

EXPLORING OUR COMMON GROUNDS: for Speaking Without Othering with Selin M. 

Rethinking Inclusion as a Felt Experience

We often talk about inclusion, but what if our words unintentionally create distance instead of connection?
In this workshop, we slow down and ask deeper questions: How do we speak with people, not about them? How can we welcome without demanding personal disclosure?
 What makes a space truly safe, seen, and shared?
We’ll explore how invisible disabilities, migration, and layered identities shape how we show up. And how inclusion lives not just in policy, but in presence, silence, tone, and care.

Grounded in intersectional and embodied practices, this session invites reflection, not instruction. It’s not a checklist – it’s a conversation.

Come as you are. Your complexity belongs.

➡️ Selin M. is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer, and facilitator whose healing-centered work bridges ethnology, gender studies, postcolonial and migration studies, and narrative inquiry. She creates reflective spaces that blend academic and community-based methods to explore collective trauma, intersectional discrimination, and inclusion as a relational, consent-based practice. Through workshops, coaching, and long-term projects, Selin fosters emotionally resonant, justice-oriented approaches to resilience and belonging.

Monday, May 26, 3:00 PM
📍 via Zoom
🗣 for BIWOC* Rising Members ONLY

What are Safer Spaces?

Dezember 17, 2021

In a workshop with Rafia Shahnaz we discussed the importance of Safer Spaces by taking a closer look at the identities that each community member carries with them.

Members present – „Inside the Ring“ Photo-Book by Ceren Saner

Januar 22, 2022

#Insidethering series brings together Ceren Saner’s ongoing works from Berlin of which also created her first photo-book.
On the 2nd year anniversary of publishing „Inside The Ring“, you are cordially invited to join Ceren Saner in an open discussion about this work in moderation of Lubi Barre.

AI and Anti Discrimination

Mai 16, 2025

AI and Antidiscrimination – Lunch Talk at BIWOC* Rising 🍽️

Used ChatGPT? Building with AI? Either way, it’s shaping our world — and it’s far from neutral.

Join us for a Lunch Talk with Dr. Chripa Schneller, who’s bringing deep anti-discrimination expertise into the world of tech. We’ll talk bias, intention vs. impact, and what it means to build fairer systems — by design.

🗓 16 May 2025 | 🕛 12–2 PM
📍 BIWOC* Rising Space
🍴 Bring your lunch – food for thought is on us

Open to all BIWoC* & TIN*BIPoC.

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.