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Welcome to my website!

Black and white photo of Karina, a woman with 7 mm shaved hair and huge round earrings.

Karina Sturm – journalist, filmmaker, writer, and professional patient

Karina is a multimedia journalist from Germany who used to live in San Francisco. She is a lab technician turned journalist with a focus on chronic illness/disability representation in the media and received her MA with Distinction in international journalism from Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. She loves Sushi, Heavy Metal, the ocean and dogs!

Popular
  • Side view of a woman with short, brown hair holding a camera with a big microphone in front of her face and filming out to the ocean.Frank MarxComing soon: Documentary film about the Ehlers-Danlos s...3. April 2019 - 0:46
  • White letters on black background: You are faking itWe Are Visible – Trailers26. July 2019 - 18:07
  • Karina, a woman with super short brown hair is wearing a black hat and has her hand on top of the hat to take it off. She wears huge, feather-like earrings and lipstick.How it all began: Getting diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos ...13. March 2021 - 22:50
  • Black and white photo of Karina, a woman with 7 mm shaved hair and huge round earrings.Let’s get real. This is how 2020 really was for me.18. March 2021 - 23:55
Recent
  • Two people are sitting in beige office chairs in front of a white wall. Dr. Gensemer is a woman with long, wavy blonde hair. She wears a blue shirt and white pants and has flower tattoos on her arm. Next to her sits Dr. Norris, a man with short brown hair, grey glasses, a blue shirt and a dark blue jacket on top.EDSed Episode 1: The Norris Lab28. October 2022 - 16:19
  • An image of a woman rubbing her neck with her hands. She has long brown hair and closed eyes. Red text on green background: Book Review. Chronic pain is a bitch! Don't let it turn you into one.Book Review: Holding It All Together When You’re ...28. October 2022 - 11:19
  • Sarah, a woman with long blonde hair sits on her bed with a big box of medication in front of her.We Are Visible Too! Episode 1: Sarah Rightmire 27. October 2022 - 18:52
  • Two people in a physical therapy office standing next to each other. A woman with short brown hair and a white shirt and pink skirt smiles brightly. Next to her stands a man with a blue shirt and a stethoscope around his neck who also smiles brightly.Where physical therapy ends and magic begins: Healy Physical...23. September 2022 - 12:54
Comments
  • Hi Molly, I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think....31. July 2021 - 13:25 by karinabutterfly
  • Hi Molly, I am so sorry for your loss. :( Sending you gentle...31. July 2021 - 13:25 by karinabutterfly
  • just rented the movie!! can’t wait to watch28. July 2021 - 0:47 by Molly Tennen
  • thank you so much.. i started getting sick at age 18, i’m...28. July 2021 - 0:45 by Molly Tennen
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My documentary highlighting the challenges people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome all across the globe face can be watched online now.

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A portrait shot of Karina, a woman with short, 10 mm shaved, brown hair and huge, feather-like earrings sits in her kitchen.

The shackles that are my disease force me to keep looking down;
every day anew, I break these chains,
raise my head and make a step forward
 

– Karina Sturm – 
Journalist, Writer, Advocate
 

Chronic Illness & Disability 
 

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