Who are we? | Hyster-x Collective

Founder of hyster-x, curator, fiction writer, literature geek

Genius is not reserved for men.

Painter, Art historian, designer, feminist

They tell you you can't, that's why you do.

Poet, feminist, journalist, egalitarian.

It's all relative.

Ilke Cop

Uschi Cop

Eva Nowé

Writer, poet, journalist, screenwriter, artist

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

columnist, copywriter, translator

You do you.

illustrator, comic book writer, journalist

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making. - Edith Warton

Emerald Liu

Anaïs Raes

Charlotte Van Hacht

Queer poet, artist, academic, activist

Learn, unlearn, relearn, and then unlearn again.

Leon Sofie Verraest

WRITER, teacher, curator of literature and story events

We were never meant to survive. - Audre Lorde

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copywriter, communication expert, eternal student

Rien ne me sépare de la merde qui m'entoure.- Virginie Despentes

Jesalyn Bolduc

Chloë Rasier

Paola Verhaert

Writer, historian, technology researcher

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. -Hannah Arendt

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Film director, youth worker

Trying to tell those stories, that are rarely told.

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Haleh Chinikar

multidisciplinary artist, poet

I follow the light, she knows the path.

Elke Vanoost

anke-mathias hannes - Anke Verschueren.j

Poet, fiction writer, performer, host, podcast maker

Not difficult, just nuanced.

Anke Verschueren

Writer, thinker, reader, doer

If one can be a worm, one can be a god too.

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bookworm, feminist, fiction writer, occasional poet

To be young, gifted and black. Oh, what a lovely, precious dream... - Nina Simone, after Lorraine Hansberry

Writer, editor, translator, editor-in-chief of Kluger Hans

Même un artichaut a du coeur.

scientist, dyslexic reader and writer

CURIOUS

nieuwsgierig-curious, inquisitive

vreemd- strange, foreign

Alice Bogaerts

philosopher, writer, theatre director, child/mother

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real. - Miranda July

Louisa Bogaerts

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Journalist, columnist and entertainer

Zoek me niet, ik ben altijd Hinda House.

Julie Cafmeyer

Columnist, playwright and fiction writer

Protect your wildlife.

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Poet, author, slammer, storyteller, actoress

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. - Audre Lorde

Hinda Bluekens

Marie Darah

Tess Van Deynse

Allround writer about critical things

Inclusion is for everyone and don't fake it, please.

Melanie Asselmans

Queer Poet, teacher

Words have more power than anyone can guess; it is by words that the world's great fight is carried on. - Mary Shelley

Hanna Desmet

writer, teacher, host

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripeteia

Polly Pollet

Artist

Positively Provocative

creative director, equality enthusiast

You are your life and nothing else. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Storyteller, Nomad, mother, educator,Advocate, Entrepreneur

You have choices—you can either run from the tidal wave, or face it head-on.

Anne Ballon

Layla Sabourian

Laura Laenen

Poet-in-the-making, psychologist, student Gender and Diversity, intersectional feminist and lover

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. - Emma Goldman

Lise Delabie

Author, literary critic, teacher Latin- french

Wij spelen het omdat we het menen. - Annelies Verbeke

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Stefanie Huysmans-Noorts

Poet, theatre maker, fiction writer, performer, actress, teacher

I'm transforming, I'm vibrating, look at me now! - Nick Cave

Margot Timmermans

Poet, Podcaster, Performer

I am not what I am. I am what I write with my hands.' - Louise Bourgeois

Helena Elshout

Playwright, cultural worker, daughter, mother, lover, activist

Your silence will not protect you. - Audre Lorde

Margot DeLaet

aspiring philosopher, poet, photographer

I hate not understanding / I like understanding so much I want it to happen over and over - Catherine Wagner

Corinne Heyrman

Fiction writer, podcast maker and theatre maker

My job is making windows where there were once walls. ― Michel Foucault

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Zindzi Tillot Owusu

writer, audiomaker, student woordkunst, editor

Ik weet het ook allemaal niet, en da's niet erg.

Leonore SPee

Theatre maker, writer, musician, artistic entrepreneur, feminist

Our world is made twice: first in thought and then in reality. - Merlijn Twaalfhoven

Nathalie Lauwereyns

illustrator and artist

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. - Amy Bloom

Lotte Philipsen

journalist, feminist, eco-warrior

Niets bestaat dat niet iets anders aanraakt - Jeroen Brouwers

Joséphine Vandekerckhove

Researcher, writer, art historian, curator, intersectional feminist

Risk joy. - Louise Glück

Ella Salvador Dalemans

poet, performer, musician

Liefde is alles, ik vind dat niet overdreven.

Poet, rapper, slammer, performer, writer, actress

If you're not going to do it, then who will?

Francesca Birlogeanu

poet, theatre maker, med student

Other people's perception of you is none of your business.

Anna Borodikhina

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Delphine Somers

painter

Even the gods are only human.

Anaïs Tossings

multitask artist, crazy activist, mother-of-two-ist

Save the world from oppression and domination with love, laughter and art.

Diane Marie Uwase

Painter, egalitarian, occasional photographer, mythology nerd.

Persistence will turn failure from foe to friend.

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Rachele Gusella

pOET, AUTHOR, LITERARY RESEARCHER

It beats words. It beats worlds. - Katherine Mansfield

Marie Paule Mugeni

Multidisciplinary artist, slammer, poet, traditional Rwandan dance dancer

I am not lucky, I am blessed.

Shoshana Walfish

Painter

Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision. - Judith Butler