Samantha Schwickert

Sam Schwickert (she/her) first studied Physics at the University of Hamburg and then Climate Physics and Sustainability Science at the University of Kiel, where she increasingly focussed on relations of exploitation in capitalism, power structures and feminist practices of transformation. In addition to her work as founder and managing director of the feminist games publisher "Spielköpfe", she is currently working as a research assistant in the Department of Environmental and Technical Sociology at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg in the project EPOS - Energiewende und Gender: Potentials of Strengthening Diversity in Citizen Energy.

In her doctoral studies at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, under the working title: "From 'Menstrual Monstering' to 'Cycle as 'Female' Superpower' - The Menstrual Cycle in Capitalism", she is investigating how emancipatory movements such as the "Menstrual Movement" are appropriated within the capitalist and patriarchal system. Her research interest lies in analysing the extent to which these movements bring about real change or remain entrenched in gender stereotypes and capitalist norms without unfolding their disruptive, subversive or transformative potential.