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A collection of stills from the collective film made earlier this year in the third iteration of the Processing Pandemic Grief Through Collective Filmmaking workshop. Thank you so much @restfestfilmfestival for inviting me back and for being so supportive. Thank you so so much to all who took part. Thank you for sharing your disenfranchised grief and your creativity and for being such a wonderful group to collaborate with. You can find our film on my vimeo, link in bio, and on the Rest Fest youtube. There is an audio described version too, as well as the collective films from 2024 and 2025. I share with you this testimony from one of the workshop participants that I was incredibly touched to receive: “I deeply appreciate your pandemic grief collective filmmaking workshops.  I always wonder why there hasn’t been more public acknowledgement of the pain of the pandemic. More public art about it. There’re no public memorials for the millions dead and disabled that I know of. No shared avenue for recognizing this pain we hold in common. Maybe because it hasn’t ended. Into the seventh year, it’s still rolling through our lives—hindsight and wisdom will come much later, if at all. And maybe it’s now taboo? No one wants to land on the topic for very long. I struggle with that too.  Processing Pandemic Grief via collective filmmaking is medicine for this open wound. An opportunity for making sense of and figuring out how we are managing all the losses the virus has brought to our lives. Creating a bit of coherence for a moment, with others. A hard and sweet interruption to the chronic sorrow.“ With deep gratitude and in forever solidarity with all those resisting the ideology of back to normal and all those grieving, creating about, staying aware of and responsive to the ongoing covid crisis 🖤 (Message me if i have missed your tag!) Image description in comments

April dates: Friday 24th Online DM for a slot! Wednesday 22nd 2 to 4pm At Casino for Social Medicine Sonnenallee 100 in Neukölln @casinoooooooooooo is on the ground floor, the toilet is not accessible and is down steps into the basement. I’ll be there sitting at a table masked. It’s a public cafe, the place is normally quiet at 2 and fills up by 4. Now it’s warmer we can also sit outside the front. If this drop in option doesn’t work for you please email me and we can arrange to meet another time at an accessible spot with precautions in place or online.

riso printed yesterday friends, siblings, lovers, partners, colleagues, crushes, parents, elders, kids, flatmates, exes, those imprisoned, occupied, hospitalised, on the move, past present future selves, comrades, mentors, neighbours, strangers with long covid how many more how many more

The Big Forget! I made an online form as another way to participate in the oral present history project. If you are in Berlin and are thinking about, caring about, actively taking precautions against covid in 2026 I would love to hear from you! The form is in my bio and at tinyurl.com/thebigforget. See my other posts for other ways to get involved, and get in touch if there’s another accommodation you need. I have made a website for the project too and will be slowly sharing snippets from the interviews I’ve been doing. thebigforget.com I’m v grateful to those who have been interested and involved so far. <3

March dates for The Big Forget: an oral present history project. DM me for an online interview slot on March 2nd Come along to @casinoooooooooooo on March 25th to chat to me between 2 and 4pm. If you understand covid as a present day political crisis and are actively taking steps to avoid it, and are in Berlin, I would love to talk to you! I‘ve had some incredible interviews in January and February so far. I’ll be in Casino on Feb 25th too. If these dates don’t work for you, get in touch to arrange an online or in person interview on another date. Casino is on the ground floor, the toilet is not accessible and is down steps into the basement. I’ll be there masked. The place might be busy. If you email me we can arrange to meet another time at an accessible spot with precautions in place. <3

The Big Forget february dates! 1) Thursday 12th online interviews - send me a message for a slot (daytime). 2) Wednesday 25th in person at Casino for Social Medicine - I’ll be there masked and would love you to come and chat. 3) Send me an email to arrange a 1:1 interview another time either online or in person at [email protected] 4) You can answer questions over email / voice message / online form too I am collecting stories and perspectives of those still thinking about and taking precautions against covid in 2026 in Berlin. I’ll be doing this throughout the year so plenty of opportunities - get in touch! Access info about Casino - the cafe is on the ground floor, the toilets are in the basement down steep steps. Last time the cafe wasn’t as quiet as I imagined and it is likely we will be the only ones masked there. If this doesn’t fit with your usual exposure levels send me a message and we can arrange a meeting somewhere else with precautions in place, or online. Second image: graffiti spotted on Sonnenallee on the way to Casino last week. Ableismus tötet means ableism kills.

LAUNCHING! The Big Forget: an oral present history project. A 12 month experiment throughout 2026 in Berlin. This year I am reaching through the fog of mass forgetting to collect stories and perspectives of people thinking about, caring about, taking precautions against covid in 2026. I want to know your thoughts, heartbreaks, survival skills, I want to know how you perceive and navigate the fog, how you organise, how you cope and how you don’t. I want to record and document our stories and create with what I collect. If your present tense has been shoved into past tense, I would love to talk to you. I will be arranging interviews (think informal solidarity chit chats) throughout the year as well as monthly drop in chats at @casinoooooooooooo for social medicine in Neukölln, plus a monthly online drop in zoom. Let’s talk about how we can make your participation accessible to you. You can answer questions over email / voice notes / text. We can meet masked and with rapid tests or plus life tests. We can meet outside. We can meet online. We can talk in English or German. You can invite me to your event or group and I’ll collect stories in the corner. 📅 I’ll be at a table in @casinoooooooooooo masked on Wednesday 28th January from 2 to 4pm (I’ve chosen a time when the place is usually not busy). 📅 After that the in person dates for Casino are pencilled in for the Wednesdays February 25th and March 25th. 📅 I’ll be online on Friday 30th January from 6 to 8pm, please drop by! (DM for link). Further online dates coming soon. I can’t wait to hear from you. [email protected]

~ SICK COMRADE SURVEY ~ ❤️‍🔥 We live in a time of poly crisis. Poverty, pandemic, fascism and climate catastrophe shape our world. And sick and disabled people are some of the first to suffer the consequences. As the already profoundly inadequate healthcare services become less accessible globally, it is more clear than ever that all we have is each other. Sick Comrade, a Berlin based collective hopes to launch a mutual aid project that educates ourselves and each other and puts into practice how to better respond to the needs of fellow chronically sick and disabled people. This project is a reaction to our experience with and witnessing of the medical abandonment and gaslighting, cultural isolation and segregation of sick and disabled people. We hope to resist that isolation and find ways to respond to each other’s needs outside of the dominant and professional « care » systems. ✨ Some questions on our mind: How does system collapse relate to the worsening health of all of our bodies? How can we betray and extract from for-profit, exclusionary and ableist healthcare systems in order to get care for ourselves and everybody who needs it most? How can we build networks that break isolation and respond to unmet needs? How can we ensure our collective autonomy, while nurturing our inherent interdependence? We want to bring these questions out of the theoretical and actually respond to our collective needs in small, every day actions that connect us. We have in mind concrete mutual aid structures like anti-isolation phone hotlines, city wide solidarity webs, meal trains, doctor’s appointment accompaniment, medicine sharing, medical advocacy partners etc. This survey comes out of that intention (LINK IN BIO - please share with your sick comrades) 🐚 Do you question if you are « sick enough » to fill out this survey? Please put your disbelief aside. We welcome any sick comrade. The healthy body is an illusion. We contain multitudes. 🔥 If you prefer a more secure way to fill this form out feel free to email us with your answers (proton to proton mail is encrypted) [email protected]

We’ll be starting the 2026 RestFest Film Festival making films and processing pandemic grief together w/ Kit Blamire ❤️📹🫂 After such a gorgeous time at the event in our inaugural festival, this is becoming a very special festival tradition. <3 Even if you can’t attend the workshop, you are very welcome to join us to watch & celebrate the collectively created film at the screening on the final day of the festival. Tickets are available now. RestFest Film Festival begins February 1, and lasts then entire month. In addition to streaming 27 films/video artworks, we are excited to bring you these virtual events! ❤️💻 Access: * Virtual. * Captioning & Transcription will be enabled on Zoom. * Comfort: Please maximize your comfort. This may mean being off-camera, coming late/leaving early, lying down, stimming, wearing comfortable attire, communicating via chat only or not at all, etc. * Flexible pricing. * Audio Describing: Chats will be read aloud and self descriptions will be provided by speakers. Any visuals shown will be described. * Recording will be available to those who reserve a ticket. * Stable Camera * Break(s) * Quiet/Low Sensory Breakout Room available to enter as needed. * Live Access Support. * There is a place in the RSVP form to request additional access measures. Also feel free to email or DM! #ImageDescription in the comments & alt-text. <3 kindly supported by @t4tdenver #FilmFestival #DisabilityCommunity #DisabilityArts VirtualEvent

I’m running this workshop for the third time in Feb! Thank you @restfestfilmfestival for having me back. This workshop is for anyone who is wishing to tend to their grief connected to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, and is intrigued by the idea of DIY filmmaking as a way to process and transform an experience. No experience necessary. It will take place on Sunday 1st February at 10am Pacific / 7pm CEST and the screening will take place one month later on Saturday 28th February at 10am Pacific / 7pm CEST. The duration is 2.5 hours with a break. We will be 20 people all together. Workshop Structure: In the first half we will share with this temporary creative community about grief that is currently present for us in connection to the ongoing pandemic. In the second half, we will explore how creativity can honour and support our grief. We will delve into how our experiences and feelings might be expressed through video, sound, words, or photos, in poetic and associative ways. We will explore what it looks like to work with what is in reach, and within our own limitations. In the couple of weeks following the workshop, guided by me, all participants will go on to create, at their own pace, a 1 minute film that expresses in some way an element of grief. I will then weave the pieces together and we will end up with a short DIY film made collaboratively. On February 28th we will come together again for a screening of the patchwork collective film. Access: - Entirely Virtual - No requirement to be on/off camera or to speak - Encouragement that you prioritize your comfort (e.g. clothing, positioning, location, eating) - Automated closed captioning + transcription - Flexible pricing - Flashing images: if anything is screen-shared that has flashing images, it will be automatically dimmed. - Recording of workshop will be available only to those who sign-up as an access measure. -Additional accommodations: when reserving your ticket, you will be asked for information about any additional accommodations we can provide for you.

📝 Take notes, take heart A companion for the doctor’s office This year I created and riso printed a booklet to prepare for and debrief after medical appointments. I‘ve printed around 30 booklets and each one has space for documenting 30 appointments. I will put together a free zine pdf soon for anyone who wants to print a copy themselves. If you would like one of the riso printed booklets get in touch and I’ll share the details. Forever sicko solidarity 🖤

Come for the film Screening of Flare (DE / 2023 / 27 min. / OmU / Original Language: English) & Artist Talk with Kit Blamire: 2 October 2025 – 7:30 pm at Hans C ***Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt. / The event takes place in English.*** Flare (2023) is an experimental documentary film that explores landscapes of autoimmunity and a struggle for autonomy whilst navigating hospitals, healing, identity and community. The film contains some moments of fast moving images. Kit Blamire @kit__bla is an anarcho-sicko filmmaker and artist living in Berlin working with words, risograph and film. Their work focuses on disability as anti-capitalism and sickness as a portal to solidarity. They hold creative workshops for processing pandemic grief.