Samantha Schwickert

Sam Schwickert (she/her) first completed a Bachelor's degree in Physics at the University of Hamburg, followed by a Master's degree in Sustainability Sciences at the University of Kiel, where she increasingly focused on exploitative structures under capitalism, power structures, and feminist practices of transformation. In addition to her role as the founder and CEO of the feminist game publishing house “Spielköpfe,” she currently works as a research associate in the Department of Sociology of Technology and the Environment at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg on the project EPOS – Energy Transition and Gender: Exploring the Potential for Strengthening Diversity in Citizen Energy.

In her doctoral research at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, under the working title “From ‘Menstrual Monstering’ to the ‘Cycle as a ‘Female’ Superpower’ – The Menstrual Cycle in Capitalism,” she examines how emancipatory movements like the “Menstrual Movement” are co-opted within capitalist and patriarchal systems. Her research aims to analyze the extent to which these movements effect genuine change or remain entrenched in gender stereotypes and capitalist norms, failing to unleash their disruptive, subversive, or transformative potential.