Ms Informed Newsletter | Symbiotic Glitches
Take a rest from being productive this August, and be human instead.
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We’ll be hosting our Read and Rest day in Brandenburg in collaboration with Stories from the Beauty Parlour for our lovely community this August.
This will be a chance for women to get together, swim, walk, read and do nothing for one full day. We can’t wait.
If you’re not part of our book club, but want to join, message us: msinformed.podcast@gmail.com
This week’s distraction
This week’s distraction is Symbiotic Glitches, an exhibition bringing together FLINTA* artists, designers, and creatives.
In a time shaped by corporate, extractive AI and accelerating environmental collapse, Symbiotic Glitches reframes the “glitch” not as failure, but as a necessary disruption. It is a portal toward an alternative ecofuture.
The exhibition will take place this weekend at Lobe Block in Wedding, encompassing the wild garden, a rooftop, and the brutalist concrete-and-steel gallery.
Across the weekend, there is a free public program with a herbal walk, guided artist tours, and performances. It would be wonderful to see you there!
Dates: 7–9 August 2026
Location: Lobe Block Berlin, Böttgerstraße 16, 13357 Berlin
This week Rina read
This week Rina has read nothing. Its been nearly two weeks and I haven’t watched any thing or read anything. I am still listening to the book Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna but otherwise I am tuned out of all forms of media. Its kinda nice. I have been swimming alot. I highly recommend it.
This week Madhvi read
This week Madhvi is reading Children of Time, a sci-fi novel about spiders in space by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s August, I just want to read something weird and adventurous, what can I say.
This week’s inspiration
This week’s inspiration is the newly launched Dyke Film Archive. An independent, searchable, collaborative archive of dyke cinema and sapphic film history
Each film has a detailed record with a synopsis, cast information, tags, content warnings, and research notes. Browse tags across 15 categories or filter films by representation, theme, gaze, and heat level. A plain-language glossary explains the terminology used throughout the archive.
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