Dora Djamila Mester
  • about me
    • personal
    • me and the garden
    • community building
    • sexuality * intimacy * relationships
    • art and beauty
    • all my works
    • media
  • activism & green transition
  • education & community building
  • garden projects
    • KK33 Budapest * community in a historic garden 2008-2013
    • Feldmár Summer University 2015
    • Muiderslot * a medieval herb and vegetable garden 2015-2017
    • Laterna Magica Amsterdam * gardening with children 2016-2020
    • SET community gardens Amsterdam (NL) 2018 – running
    • HOLD base * garden * nature * art * care * seat of learning (HU) 2025-
    • Campo Para°Diso (IT) 2025-
  • In Touch Amsterdam
    • Running projects
      • SET community gardens Amsterdam 2018-
      • community oven 2024 – running
      • Beyond Gender 2022-2025
    • Past projects
      • STEK Oost Amsterdam community garden & atelier 2024 January-August
      • Three tier garden 2021-2022
      • Using the voice and body in the classroom (VOICE) 2021-2023
      • Integral Sexual Education and Empowerment in Schools (ISEX) 2021-2023
      • DRAW the lines of safety (DRAW) 2018-2021
      • The BODY project
      • Sex-ed in schools
        • Intimacy, Relationships and Interculturality in Youth Work (IRIS) 2018-2021
      • Pestalozzi teachers training
      • Body, society, culture: together for integration
  • art
    • photography
    • zen videos
    • creating spaces
    • community art
    • dance
    • Erotica
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Joanna Frueh – writer, performance artist, excellent source of inspiration

706d2f43eac9fc0b6e916c98729bb98f_originalJoanna Frueh: ´I discussed sexuality and the body long before they became accepted–indeed, fashionable–areas of study in contemporary art and academia. My thinking about those subjects, along with my breaking away from standard forms of academic and critical writing, shape what I’ve called a critical erotics, which I’ve developed in my publications and performances. I show in them that a scholar can write both sensually and accessibly and that a woman can be both attractive and smart. My self-portrait photos display the same qualities that characterize my writing: beauty, intellect, and sensuality. I embrace my audience, as readers and as viewers of my performances and photos.´

Joanna Frueh – writer, a performance artist, a scholar, and a teacher whose work expands into photo, video, and audio pieces.

Healing and Pleasure

I’m working in medical and health venues to ease people undergoing a cancer experience. In my book, A Short Story about a Big Healing, published in 2013, I write some about my own experience of a breast cancer diagnosis, in 2012, and subsequent surgery, treatment, and post-treatment. Healing and pleasure in such a circumstance may sound like an oxymoron, but my intention is to help people open more readily than usual to their own bodily sensations and beliefs, and the language that they use to describe themselves. I know the pain of that kind of opening—and I live far more in its pleasure. The community dialogue series that I organized and facilitated, Conversations among Friends, began this avenue of teaching in autumn 2013. I also give talks and speak with support groups. And I volunteer in a chemotherapy infusion unit. The mutual learning in these simultaneously intimate and community settings is deeply satisfying.

 



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