Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo

Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo is a poet, artist, curator, and facilitator. Aukongo’s practice moves through Black feminist and decolonial thought, queer and disabled existence, intersectionality, desire, resistance and collective belonging. Aukongo works with words, performance and communal spaces to give language to what is often silenced, and to imagine softer ways of being together. Selected publications include First Rain Poetry (2026), Sperrlinien (2020), Buchstabengefühle (2018), and Kalungas Kind (2009). Aukongo’s work can be found in various photography exhibitions, as well as in various zines, publications, and projects. Aukongo lives and works in Berlin.