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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!

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  • 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
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  • Elan Schneider, a bald man, wearing white headphones and glasses.PT Elan Schneider on Neuroplasticity and New Approaches...4. March 2023 - 12:03
  • Dr. Lilian Holm on EDS & Physical Therapy. Dr. Lilian Holm, a woman with shoulder-long brown hair and bangs, is sitting in her office, which is a large room with a turquoise wall behind her and an open fireplace. She sits on a beige chair and wears a black shirt and a delicate golden necklace. In the background is a treatment bench in the foreground two red flowers.EDSed Episode 2: Dr. Lilian Holm on Physical Therapy &...27. January 2023 - 11:45
  • An illustration of a blue and purple nerve cell and a magnifying glass on yellow background. Text: New research on EDS, POTS & SFN. Small Fiber Neuropathy is a Common Feature in HEDS, Research Finds.Small Fiber Neuropathy is a Common Feature in Hypermobile...25. January 2023 - 12:58
  • A super close up of a woman's face. She is smiling slightly and wears huge silver earrings and red lipstick.Hi, this is me: Karina17. December 2022 - 18:19
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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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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