Miedya Mahmod

Miedya Mahmod lives, writes, works. Since 2016, Mahmod has been involved in poetry, leading writing workshops, and designing and moderating discussion and reading formats. Mahmod is involved in the Spoken Word Working Group of the Netzwerk Lyrik (Poetry Network) and in 2021 joined the artist collective parallelgesellschaft, which has been curating and organizing monthly reading stage shows for several years, filling them with its own texts, dialogues, and performances in Neukölln. Mahmod was a founding member of Aufruhrgebiet – the revolutionary reading stage that was the first queer-feminist reading stage formation in the Ruhr area. They did volunteer cultural work in the Ruhr area between 2020 and 2023, focusing on spoken word/poetic education in schools, and are currently trying their hand at their first so-called ‘independent publication’, even though they don't believe in the claim of being an independent author.