Fieldwork during a pandemic – preparations

Dear readers, dear fellow researchers and all those interested, two weeks ago I have asked on twitter whether you would be interested in an online ethnographic diary – and since many liked the post and some even told me that they were looking forward to it, I have decided to actually do it. So from

Masks, the Study of Religion and Digression

Once you have started with feminism, it feels as if you have been put on a pair of glasses through which you see the world in a way that always puts the markers „gender roles,“ „patriarchy,“ or „power“ in front. No, not glasses, you could take them off. Rather, something like a mask that is firmly glued to the face.

Social-Distancing Update from a Masters' and PhD student's living room

deutsch The home office has now reached pretty much everyone where it is possible — some faster and „easier“ than others. Most of the students and many of my colleagues simply had to go to the university library quickly and hope that the bag they were allowed to carry out on the last open day

„Strong Women“: Why I didn’t want them as lecturers

deutsch Today is International Women’s Day. So what fits this better than a blog post about „strong women“? In universities, as in so many other fields, we still lack women not only as lecturers, professors and persons to relate to, but also as representatives who show us: it is possible! So, therefore, every woman in

Role Models

A role model, that’s someone to look up to – isn’t it? But why exactly do I find Butler so great? Why do I travel through almost all of Germany to see her for the third time now? This is a post reflecting of my definition of role models