Karina Tarasiuk

Karina Tarasiuk (she/her) is a Brazilian M.A. student in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, with a focus on Literature, History, and Cultural Studies. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of São Paulo and completed a two-semester exchange in Cultural Studies at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg in Germany.

Her undergraduate thesis took the form of the documentary “Matriarcas da terra” (Matriarchs of the earth), which highlights the agroecological practices of women from the “Comuna da Terra Irmã Alberta” settlement, part of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), in São Paulo.

As a journalist, she has focused on social-environmental, political, and feminist issues, producing work across text, video, and audio formats. She has a particular interest in documentaries and podcasts. Currently, she contributes to Lateinamerika Nachrichten, an independent Berlin-based magazine, where she covers Brazilian topics. She also works independently as a writer and poet, and is the author of the published book “antologia caótica” (chaotic anthology).

Her academic interests include artivism (particularly the use of literature and cinema as forms of political resistance), counterculture movements, Latin America during the Cold War (especially under Military Dictatorships), migration, ecofeminism, and agrarian reform movements such as the MST in Brazil.