Dinara Rasuleva

Dinara Rasuleva

Dinara Rasuleva is a poet_ess based in Berlin from Kazan, Tatarstan, writes in Tatar, Russian, English, and German. Their work, often described as decolonial and feminist, spans expressionist and performance poetry. In 2020, Dinara founded a feminist writing lab for Russian-speaking immigrant women*. Their debut poetry collection, "Su," was released by Babel in 2022. The same year, Dinara launched the Lostlingual project, exploring the loss of Tatar language through translingual poetry. In 2023, in partnership with Berlin's Totschka library, they initiated the TEL:L laboratories focusing on writing in native, forgotten, or suppressed languages. Dinara conducts workshops for various institutions and has collaborated with entities like the Goethe Institute and Freie Universität Berlin, participating in numerous European poetry festivals and being featured in publications like Stadtsprachen and Words without Borders. https://t.me/dispoesie https://www.instagram.com/pustotalitarism