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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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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 Marx
    Coming soon: Documentary film about the Ehlers-Danlos s...3. April 2019 - 0:46
  • White letters on black background: You are faking it
    We 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
  • A bright background with a serious looking girl in the foreground. She has long blonde hair and brown eyes. Title: Take care of Maya
    New Netflix Documentary ‘Take Care of Maya’...25. June 2023 - 16:56
  • A female doctor with a blue surgical robe and a blue cap holding up a purple stethoscope.
    Mastering Appointments Successfully With EDS13. June 2023 - 17:27
  • Caitlin, a woman with long red hair is sitting on a chair in her backyard. The sun is shining. She wears a blue shirt and sits in front of a gigantic orange tree with lots of oranges and green leaves.
    We Are Visible (Too), Episode 2: Caitlin O’Donnell5. June 2023 - 17:05
  • Billie Eilish, a woman with black shoulder-long hair all dressed in black.
    6 Popular People With Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome13. May 2023 - 13:57
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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Watch WE ARE VISIBLE!

My documentary highlighting the challenges people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome all across the globe face can be watched online now.

VIMEO ON DEMAND

Chronic Pain Partners Post (EDS Newsletter) – In collaboration with EDS Awareness

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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