Seminar - “Endo Violence Think-in”

Anchored in the concept of Endo Violence—a collectively developed framework emerging from lived experience, artivism, and interdisciplinary research—this gathering invites participants to reflect on the systemic and everyday injustices faced by people living with endometriosis. Through dialogue, short presentations, and collective reflection, it aims to create a space for critical discussion, solidarity, and justice-oriented imagination.

Endo Violence, rooted in lived experience, collective care, and critical inquiry, is a co-created concept that identifies the epistemic and intersectional injustices experienced by those affected by endometriosis. Informed by collective authorship and feminist, disability justice, and decolonial traditions, the framework makes visible the medical, digital, ecological, and social harms that shape these experiences—highlighting their deeply political nature.

This Think-In at the Maison de France in Berlin brings together voices from the community, academia, and activism to explore the meaning and potential of Endo Violence as a concept, a practice, and a collective response. Through presentations, open dialogue, and shared reflection, we aim to build connections and co-imagine more just futures.

The seminar is led by HYSTERA – Dr. Alicja Pawluczuk

Dr. Alicja Pawluczuk is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice intersects art, education, and science. She is a digital inequalities researcher at the INCLUDE+ network at the University of Leeds, led by Professor Helen Thorne (https://includeplus.org/), where she runs an artivist research project titled Endo-Violence Temporalities: Exploring Digital [In]Visibilities. She is also co-founder of the Endo Violence Magazyn.

With extensive experience in digital inequality and participatory education for digital justice, she merges these areas to create innovative, human-centered, and thought-provoking work. Her artistic practice explores the intersections of research and creative intervention for social change. Using participatory, decolonial, intersectional, and experimental approaches, she aims to create spaces, communities, and artworks that challenge conventional boundaries and spark meaningful conversations.

Her work is known for its bold, kitschy exuberance—but above all, it embodies a powerful sense of hysteria. With her unique form of "hysterical artivism," HYSTERA seeks to expose the collective and often invisible suffering caused by centuries of medical misogyny and the ongoing gender gap in healthcare.

In her work, HYSTERA deeply engages with her own entangled identities—as a tech researcher, feminist, migrant, disabled activist, and artist. By rooting these identities in a broader sociotechnical context, she reveals the complex layers of social dynamics, power structures, and lived experience that shape our world.

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