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Harley is a curator, researcher, and the kind of person who could make any topic interesting. We settled on talking about the ups and downs of friendship. Harley is a New Yorker and she came to Berlin with her best friend from college, but things started changing between them after the big move. ...

And now for something completely different. I sat down with film professor Prof. Peter Lehman and horror scholar Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas to discuss male nudity in cinema. We discuss our connections with the topic, the phallus vs the penis, rape revenge, the pitfalls of “respectable cinema, ...

Freyia is a trainee wellness practitioner, podcaster and aspiring lingerie designer who reached out to me on social media. Freyia experienced a psychotic break a few years ago and we talk about what that was like for her as well as what changed in her life afterwards and what didn‘t. I want ...

Grace, a student of psychology is interested in decision-making and therefore pretty perfect for the podcast. Grace, previous podcast guest Jess and I have been virtually movie watching for a year now, but this was the first non-movie related conversation Grace and I ever had. We talk about ...

During the pandemic I joined a book club filled with great, admirable women. One of these women is Dyan, my guest this episode. Dyan is a multi-instrumentalist and singer currently working on her first solo album after almost two decades of working in bands. We talk about what led to her pro ...

The Bend is back with a light and hopefully fun episode! I chatted with Robby Hoffman, a Canadian stand-up comedian. I first saw Robby on The Chris Gethard Show where she was working as a writer. A year or so later, I found her comedy/advice show Dykevice on YouTube. Robby’s brand of comedy i ...

One film project that has had a huge impact on me is the Up Series. The Up Series is an ongoing British series of documentary films that began in 1964 and followed 14 children from different socio-economic backgrounds in England. Every 7 years director Michael Apted meets up with the kids, wh ...

Sophia is is the owner of the charming English-language bookstore Another Country in Kreuzberg and is quite a known entity in some Berlin circles because of it. She spent most of her life in England and moved to Berlin more than two decades ago. Trans coming out stories are very diverse, of ...

Lizzie Borden is the director of the influential sci-fi/agitprop cult film BORN IN FLAMES (1983) and Sundance award winner WORKING GIRLS (1986). We showed BORN IN FLAMES as part of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival’s special sci-fi event in 2019 and I decided to reach out to Lizzie Borden duri ...