2️⃣5️⃣ Pride Parade & Queer Events, the Olympics + Jobs, Housing Offers & Berlin's Events for this Week
Hello dear IWBies ✨
How did you spend the last week?
We're packed with the best news from the city for you to keep up to date with, housing tips, job opportunities and much more!
In the special links section, we have one subject in common: friendship. It can often be lonely trying to make new friends, how do you deal with this feeling? Write to us, we'd love to hear from you!
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Have a great week and see you next time!
Bruna and your IWB Team 💖
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As immigrants, it's important to stay informed about what's happening in Germany. Here are the most important news updates you should be aware of:
🇪🇺 Ursula von der Leyen will serve as European Commission President for another five years
😓 @BVG_Kampagne, leaves Twitter (never X) after 13 years! The cause? Internet trolls…
✈️ Berlin airport severely disrupted amid worldwide IT outage
😳 U-Bahn surfing accident leaves 18-year-old with life threatening injuries
🇫🇷 Deutschlandticket to Paris: New offer launched for young people during Olympics
🎓 These 2 German universities were ranked among the top 20 in Europe
🎟️ Deutschlandticket price fixed at 49 euros until 2025
💰 How will changes to German tax rates impact you in 2025?
⚽Meet Sjoeke Nüsken - the woman leading Germany's women's football team at the Paris Olympics
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👉 Week from the July 22nd to the July 28th - Berlin is a city full with events to suit all tastes. Here are some highlights that we think you and your friends would enjoy:
💖 IWB F*cked Up Stories Night & Meet-Up at Grammarly: We just publish our new event, for the 25th July! Save your spot now, they always get sold out!
🏳️🌈 The super famous, important and fun CSD Pride March, is happening on the 27th - Don’t miss that!
👩🏼❤️👩🏽 For the lesbians: Dyke March on the 26th and the Official CSD FLINTA Party, also on the 27th
⛓️ Two of the biggest sex parties in Berlin, together: Gegen x Pornceptual
☀️ Free Open Airs of the week: at Brigit, Ritter Butzke Pride Stage (Brandenburger Tor), embraceOurweird, Pumptrack, Sky-Bar Warmup
🔥 CALENTURA Vinyl All-Stars, on the 27th
💃 For the kittens who want to dance on Monday
🔊Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Terapia
👯♀️ Transamerican returns, presenting one of the most iconic shows in the Latin American electronic music scene: AEROBICA.
🇮🇳 Get ready to indulge in delicious Indian cuisine and explore unique trade opportunities at Indian Food and Trade Festival!
😅MAMAS' BOY - Lesbian Son Comedy Hour
💚Kimchi Workshop – vegan
🖐️Hands Club: Speed Creating a fun event where you can unleash your creativity in unexpected ways!
🚢Laughing Spree: English Comedy - It's Berlin's #1 (and only) English Comedy Show on a Boat.
🕺YoPaDa: Dancing with the Walls - Yoga Parkour (Ecstatic) Dance Flow
🎨The Souls of White “Volk” - Digital Exhibition curated by Prof. Dr. Natasha A. Kelly
❤️🔥 Psychedelic Cumbia Party - Sommer Special, on the 26th
💕 Also on the 26: Tropikinky Queer Latinx Party Berlin
🏅 Reminder: Paris Olympic Games start on the 26th
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IWB, with +37k members, is a very active community. Given that you might not have time to catch up on everything and some good posts may get overlooked, here are a few highlights from our group, from the last week:
☀️ Bruna, IWB founder and a Rio local, is thinking about organising a 2-week trip with 15 girls from the group, to Brazil in February (summer and Carnaval!). You should come with us!🩸
“Recommendations for a trustworthy English speaking gynecologist.”
👗 “Wedding guest outfit ideas.”
🇨🇱 Thinking of travelling to Chile? Read this first
😞 “I find myself using very harsh and hurtful words towards my loved ones when I am stressed.”
🥴 “Has anyone stacked their *drying machine on top of their washing machine?”
👯♀️ “I'm looking for other fruity women* to hang out with/go to queer places/go out with (clubs and bars).”
💊 “Does anyone have any experience with gut healing supplements that have helped you with Hormonal Acne?”
🐕🦺 “Does anyone know of a good/recommended doggy daycare in Berlin?”
💸 Financial advice to read now!
📸 “We are looking for some women who would like to join as model (not needed a professional level or any previous experience)”, on Sunday 4 of August
🇪🇸 Planing to move to Madrid or Barcelona? Check out this tips
We know finding a place to stay in Berlin is a hard tasks, sometimes. That’s why we gather, every week, some links that might help you - from women to women:
“Our flatmate is leaving so we are looking for a new roomie to join our WG from 1 August!”
“I'm looking for someone new to share my home”
“I’d like to sublet my 1-bedroom apartment for 3 months”
“1 room available in beautiful shared flat on Bergmannstraße, Kreuzberg (with anmeldung)”
“I am helping to find a person who will be interested in renting the room where I currently live.”
“We are about to leave this 35m² studio in Fridenau”
“Long term room in Neukölln shared flat”
“We have a very cute sunny room available in the heart of Kreuzberg for a 3 month sublet”
“There is a room in my WG available Aug 1st.”
👉 Join our IWB Housing sister group to access more offers or to post your own
A big reason why ppl move to Berlin is to get better lives. That’s totally connect with our work life. Check out these opportunities, we need more women in ALL fields:
👉 Do you have a job opening that we should feature here?
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Check out what our IWB team is reading, or find it interesting and wants to share with you:
💘 Series like Friends and Sex and The City have made us see friendship in a certain way... but does it work the same way for everyone?
💻 Are you a creative? Then you need to read this
🍔 If you're a kid of the 1970s or '80s, you'll remember a glorious time when the epitome of a children's birthday party was spent at McDonald's.
🧐 Have you ever felt alone in a friendship? Maybe you're in a one-sided relationship...
🧴 Here are a few things to know about sunscreen.
😅 POV: you work for a German company
We are very happy and proud to get msgs like this, thank you! 💖
To run IWB, there’s a group of 6 women, mostly women of color, taking care of different tasks to keep the whole IWB project running. As we continue to grow, our responsibilities grow as well, and we are basically doing this job that takes a lot of our energy, time and mental health for free.
”You give a little, you take a little”
Our ✨dream✨ is to keep supporting the community of women* in Berlin as much as we can, with events, helpful resources, support groups… and in return, we would get at least 1€ from each member that got something positive out of IWB. We host over 36k people right now… even if we got 20k every month, we could hire immigrant women, pay them fairly and find a small whole in the middle of the patriarchal, capitalist system that usually underpays women.
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