Sick Girl* Strategies is an autoethnographic lexicon of pain, care, and survival – an online archive and publishing platform collecting texts, notes, tears, rants, poetry, prose, monologues, jokes, saliva, and stories on illness. It grows as a community of sick girls* and their autotheories.


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NEWS

June 2026
Online / At Home


– SG*S Website Launch
– First prints of the mutant book
October 2026
Berlin
(exact date and location to be announced)		– Presentation of the publication and mutant book, Chronic Superpositions and Sick Girl* Strategies

– Online readings by contributors of the open call Girl*, are you tired?

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BLOG

This is the official archive of all texts gathered through different calls, submissions, and formats.

  • Contributions from the open call ”Girl*, are you tired?” in collaboration with Pink Dot Berlin.
  • Contributions for the method ”A Mutant, A Migrant and a Sick Girl*” by Nadja Kracunovic (in Casino for Social Medicine Berlin & Online – ongoing)
  • Categories: prose, poetry, short story, monologue, instructions, experimental, illness narrative, author theory, essay, messages, manual, manifesto, report, letter, etc.
READ ME

PUBLICATION
Chronic Superpositions: Sick Girl* Strategies

The publication is written by the artist Nadja Kracunovic and designed by the artist Camilo Londoño Hernández.

  • 5 Volumes and 140 contributions
  • This Book Was Written As An Authoethnographic Variety Show
ABOUT

PRINT ME
DIY Printing Instructions

MUTANT BOOK / PUBLICATION

Print your own sample!

  • Instructions on how to DIY print at home/ at friends/lovers, or at a printing shop.
  • All Volumes are in different sizes, made for the playful printing process. Remember, this is a mutant book.
  • Instructions are available as text.
  • If you need any help, get in touch!
INSTRUCTIONS

Donate & Support

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This website and project are run from one artist’s pocket. If you can, please donate to support the site’s subscription, maintenance, and future work.

PayPal should also work for supporters outside Europe. If you cannot donate but want to support the project with technical help, design, or WordPress maintenance, please get in touch.

A word from the sick girl*

Dear You,

When I was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS in 2023, I anxiously waited for the first relapse to loosen its grip. I waited for my hands to return to me, so I could write from inside the rollercoaster, not after it had become a neat story.

The urge to tell our own stories, to keep our autonomy alive and free from systematic pressure, is perhaps the only capital we fully have. So here we are: my fluctuating illness and I, under multiple infections, week by week, building a lexicon you have already begun to fill with your precious wordings.

I truly hope this space can open itself as a blog, a lexicon of new terms, unspoken symptoms, intimate strategies, and things that have remained invisible or unrendered to the non-sick.

I am grateful to be your silent and loud back office. I will do my best to remain, maintain, and care for what is here and what is still to come.

This platform will invite artists to read online, publish textual and other forms of expression, hear you out, collect ideas, strategies, and complaints, and seek opportunities to spread the word and support our work. Our pieces, our medication, and our rent need to be paid. For now, all the work gathered here is chosen, unpaid labour.

Thank you, Sick Girls*, for sharing your strategies, your words, and your valuable time with me throughout this process.

Let this be the beginning of a space that does not ask us to become clearer, smaller, healthier, or more useful, but remains a room for brain-fogged mutants – the carriers of knowledge.

to
wherever
it hurts,
Nadja (Nađa)

Gabriela Parra Sánchez designed the logo of SG*S.