waiting_for_cows is shortlisted for the DDG (Dutch Directors Guild) Award for Best Digital Storytelling ❤️
The DDG Award honours the most impressive directing achievements of 2025.
waiting_for_cows is a large-format interactive film exploring the complex relationship between humans, animals and technology. The project offers rare glimpses into contemporary machinic rituals of farm life where the flow of bovine data reveals much larger systems of power. And that same technology steers the work itself, data streamed from cow wearables determines the pace at which visitors view the film 🐄🐄🐄
Congratulations to the fellow shortlisted projects — a beautiful selection of digital storytelling works!
DDG members can vote until 25 May 🙏
👉🏻 link in bio
You’re invited to our upcoming online Gossip Session on 20 May 19.00 - 20.30.
Join our conversation with designers @marielouisejuul and @nadiacampowoytuk and moderated by @klasien as we …
🩸 Speculate on menstrual product design rooted in earthly care, not profit
🩸 Dream up more-than-human futures with biomaterials, moss & microbes
🩸 Explore feminist design to challenge dominant systems
🩸 Move beyond critique into collective, visionary and speculative thinking
Are you…
An Ecofeminist? A Bio designer/artist?
Researching gender & environmental justice? Curious about the politics behind your period products?
JOIN US ONLINE
📅 20 May 2026
🕙 19.00 - 20.30 (Central European Time)
🎟️ Ticket LINK in BIO (€5.50)
COMING SOON 20 MAY / What if menstrual care could nourish both our bodies and the planet? Imagine pads made from sphagnum moss: highly absorbent, biodegradable, and entirely natural. Or menstrual products created from materials like wheat gluten instead of plastic-heavy synthetics. These are the kinds of radical possibilities feminist designer and researcher @nadiacampowoytuk explores through her work at the intersection of menstrual health, ecology, and design.
For our next gossip session Periods, Profit & Planet – An EcoFeminist Vision, we’re joined by Nadia, a PhD researcher in Interaction Design at @kthuniversity in Stockholm, whose work speculates on alternatives to today’s mainstream menstrual industry. Her research asks: How can caring for menstrual health also become an environmentally nourishing practice?
Together, we’ll explore ecofeminist futures, material experimentation, and what it means to rethink menstrual care beyond convenience and consumption. Featured guest/designer Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard also joins the conversation.
Because the products lining supermarket shelves today didn’t appear by accident. Most menstruators are still encouraged to choose the all-white, “clean,” ultra-hygienic version of menstrual products — as though menstruation itself were something dirty to conceal. Behind this aesthetic is a billion-dollar industry built on disposability, plastic, and the commodification of menstruation itself.
Are you researching gender and/or environmental justice? A maker with ecofeminist ideals? We’d love to see you there 💙 Limited spots available, so sign up early to join this conversation.
JOIN US ONLINE Periods, Profit & Planet – An EcoFeminist Vision Gossip Session #3
📅 20 May 2026 🕙 19.00–20.30 CET 🎟️ Ticket LINK in BIO (€5.50)
Featured Guests / Designers: Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard & Nadia Campo Woytuk.
On 20 May we will be in conversation with Danish designer-researcher Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard at our next Gossip Session. Join us online as we explore her fascinating take on the design of intimate technologies. Marie Louise designs technologies for menstrual, sexual and reproductive health adopting feminist values like embodiment, community and ecology in the making process.
We will dive into her work on the Biomenstrual project (co-created with Nadia Campo Woytuk). In this groundbreaking work, the pair tested their invention of biodegradable menstrual pads in the kitchen (not kidding!). They collaborated with bacteria, microbes, plants and insects to break down menstrual waste AND they co-wrote The Biomenstrual Spellbook (yes, you read that correctly, a book of 🩸spells).
Her latest co-edited publications are More-Than-Human Design in Practice (2025) and Fabulating Together: Nordic Fabulation Network (2025). Based in Oslo, she currently works as a designer within a healthtech startup. Together we’ll be speculating on what’s possible when designers create period products with Earthly care, sustainability and collective imagination in mind, rather than profit and secrecy.
Are you researching gender and/or environmental justice? A maker with ecofeminist ideals? You are invited for this session. We’d love to see you there.💙 There are **limited spots** so sign up early to be part of this ecofeminist conversation.
JOIN US ONLINE
Periods, Profit & Planet – An EcoFeminist Vision
Gossip Session #3
📅 20 May 2026
🕙 19.00 - 20.30 (Central European Time)
🎟️ Ticket LINK in BIO (€5.50)
Featured Guests / Designers Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard & Nadia Campo Woytuk.
NEW GOSSIP SESSION / Join us on the 20th May 2026 for a double-witchy online talk event featuring designers Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard (DK) and Nadia Campo Woytuk (ES/US). Together we’ll be speculating on what’s possible when designers create period products with Earthly care, sustainability and collective imagination in mind, rather than profit and secrecy.
In 2021 Marie Louise and Nadia began their prototypes of biodegradable menstrual pads in the kitchen (true story). They collaborated with bacteria, microbes, plants and insects to break down menstrual waste AND they co-wrote The Biomenstrual Spellbook (yes, you read that correctly, a book of 🩸spells). Their work formed part of their Biomenstrual design project, exploring how to re-use and compost menstrual waste.
Are you researching gender and/or environmental justice? A maker with ecofeminist ideals? You are invited for this session. We’d love to see you there.💙 There are **limited spots** so sign up early to be part of this ecofeminist conversation with two incredible designers.
JOIN US ONLINE
Periods, Profit & Planet – An EcoFeminist Vision
Gossip Session #3
📅 20 May 2026
🕙 19.00 - 20.30 (Central European Time)
🎟️ Ticket LINK in BIO (€5.50)
Featured Guests / Designers Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard & Nadia Campo Woytuk.
We’d love to see you at our upcoming Gossip Session on 15 April 7pm- 8pm online.
Gossip Session #2 of Periods, Profit & Planet explores gender-expansive ideas of periods. We are looking forward to our conversation with author Ela Przybyło about…
🩸Toxic entanglements of bleeding bodies & the planet
🩸How menstrual pain is “coded feminine”
🩸Ways that gender is made & unmade through menstrual medication
🩸Menstrual suppression as a gender affirming practice
Join us to grow the discussion around menstruation justice.
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Gossip Session #2
📅 15 April 2026
🕙 19.00 - 20.00 (Central European Time)
🎟️ Ticket LINK in BIO (€5.50)
Join our online Gossip Session #2 on 15 April with featured guest Ela Przybyło, Associate Professor at Illinois State University & author of Ungendering Menstruation.
We will be in conversation with Ela about their journey from early menstruation experiences (including toxic shock syndrome) and how this led to a book project about gender and menstruation justice.
Are you curious about ungendering menstruation? Researching gender & environmental justice? A maker with ecofeminist ideals? Fed up with femwashing & pink marketing? Same here. JOIN US ONLINE
Gossip Session #2
📅 15 April 2026
🕙 19.00 - 20.00 (Central European Time)
🎟️ Ticket LINK in BIO (€5.50)
Our next Gossip Session guest is adopting a “cranky” approach to periods. Because the embodied experiences of menstruation are not always bloody beautiful. And as Ela Przybyło writes in their book Ungendering Menstruation: bleeding is often painful as hell and can be a site of gender dysphoria for nonbinary, gender variant and transmasculine bleeders.
We are looking forward to our cranky conversation :) with Ela about…
🩸How menstrual pain is “coded feminine”
🩸Ways that gender is made & unmade through menstrual pharmacology
🩸Menstrual suppression as a gender affirming practice
Join us to grow the discussion around menstruation justice and explore how it touches on other kinds of social justice, including queer rights and climate justice.
Are you curious about ungendering menstruation and menopause? Researching gender & environmental justice? A maker with ecofeminist ideals? Fed up with femwashing & pink marketing? Same here.
JOIN US ONLINE
Gossip Session #2
📅 15 April 2026
🕙 7.00PM - 8.30PM (Central European Time)
Guests Ela Przybylo (author Ungendering Menstruation) & Lasara Firefox Allen MSW (Author Genderqueer Menopause)
🎟️ Ticket LINK in BIO (€5.50)
Ela Przybyło is Associate professor of English and core faculty in women’s gender and sexuality studies at Illinois State University. Their latest book is titled Ungendering Menstruation, published in 2025.
Our🩸Bloody Beautiful🩸Gossip Session #2 is on the 15 April 2026 online(!) with Lasara Firefox Allen (MSW), author of Genderqeer Menopause.
Lasara’s book is trail blazing exploration of the diverse menopause experiences of nonbinary, trans, and other queerbodied folx who have been largely overlooked - and actively invisibilized - from menopause conversations. Lasara is a best selling author, coach and educator who makes a huge contribution to gender-affirming literature on the subject of menopause.
This Gossip Session is part of Bloody Beautiful’s 3-part talks series. We are exploring ideas of a more conscious (and critical) relationship between menstruating bodies and the planet.
We will be sharing ecofeminist ideas, speculating in witchy ways and calling on some experts in the field.
Are you researching gender & environmental justice? A maker with ecofeminist ideals? Fed up with femwashing & pink marketing? Curious about ungendering menstruation and menopause? Same here.
JOIN US ONLINE…
Gossip Session #2
📅 15 April 2026
🕙 7.00PM - 8.30PM (Central European Time)
Guests Lasara Firefox Allen MSW (Author Genderqueer Menopause) & Ela Przybylo (author Ungendering Menstruation)
Zoom link upon registration
🎟️ Ticket LINK in BIO (€5.50)
For Bloody Beautiful’s upcoming 3-part talks series we will explore a conscious (and critical) relationship between menstruating bodies and the planet.
In the well-loved format of our🩸GOSSIP SESSIONS🩸moderated by @patsydixon we will be sharing ecofeminist ideas, speculating in witchy ways and calling on some experts in the field.
Are you researching gender & environmental justice? A maker with ecofeminist ideals? Fed up with femwashing & pink marketing? Curious about the politics behind your period products? Same here.
JOIN US ONLINE…
Gossip Session #1
📅 25 March 2026
🕙 7.00PM - 8.30PM (Central European Time)
Guests Ida Tin (Clue Co-founder) & Camilla Mørk Røstvik (Menstruation Historian) @camillamrostvik
Gossip Session #2
📅 15 April 2026
🕙 7.00PM - 8.30PM (Central European Time)
Guests @lasara_firefox_allen MSW (Author Genderqueer Menopause) & Ela Przybylo (author Ungendering Menstruation)
Gossip Session #3
📅 20 May 2026
🕙 7.00PM - 8.30PM (Central European Time)
Guest Marie Louise Søndergaard (Bio-artist) @marielouisejuul
Link: Meeting link upon registration
Registration LINK in BIO
Tickets €5.50 per session or €12.50 for all three
Our upcoming 🩸GOSSIP SESSION🩸features femtech entrepreneur and thinker Ida Tin. In 2012 she co-founded one of the world’s first period and cycle cracking apps called Clue. In this journey Ida has been up close with venture capitalists and the profit obsessed world of Silicon Valley. She knows first hand that the line between empowerment and exploitation of womxn’s bodies is PAPER THIN in tech.
But this also puts Ida in a perfect place to think about how technology can be reimagined to work for the planet and not against it – something she has been advocating for in her new think tank called Femtech Assembly.
For our ongoing research project Periods, Profit & Planet – An EcoFeminist Vision, we are calling on thinkers like Ida to explore the hard questions about the relationship between menstruating bodies and the planet. We’d ❤️ to see you there.
📅 25 March 2026
🕙 7.00PM - 8.30PM (Central European Time)
Guests: Ida Tin & Camilla Mørk Røstvik
Link: Zoom link upon registration
Registration LINK in BIO (€5.50)
This video clip is from an event held in Amsterdam in 2025, with many thanks to the de Balie programming team who made this event happen.
