Miriam Davoudvandi

Davoudvandi grew up as the daughter of an Iranian father and a Romanian mother^[2] in Bucharest until the age of six.^[3] At the age of six, she moved to Bad Säckingen, where she grew up - in her own words - "very far from bourgeoisie".^[4] According to Davoudvandi, she has suffered from depressions since her youth.^[5] After graduating from high school, Davoudvandi moved to Frankfurt am Main^[1] and later studied media at the University of Leipzig. Media, Communication and Political Science. This is where her interest in feminist theory began.^[6]

After graduating, she worked as editor-in-chief of Splash! Mag. Until the end of Splash! Mag in 2019, she was the only female editor-in-chief of a hip-hop medium.^[4] Nach dem Ende des Splash! Mags arbeitete Davoudvandi als freie Journalistin, hauptsächlich über die Themen Musik, psychische Gesundheit und Politik.^[7] She has written articles for Spiegel,^[1] Die Tageszeitung^[8] and Das Wetter^[9] and was a guest on Deutschlandfunk^[10] and NDR.^[11]

She has also worked as a workshop leader and as a DJ under the pseudonym Cashmiri.^[12] She gives lectures on rap and feminism. Since 2020, Davoudvandi has been working for Cosmo (WDR) the podcast Danke, gut. Der Podcast über Pop und Psyche, in which she talks to public figures about mental health.^[13] She hosts the documentary series Untergrund^[14] for the online music magazine Diffus.

Miriam Davoudvandi lives in Berlin.

Philipp Bovermann of the Süddeutsche Zeitung sees Miriam Davoudvandi as one of the most important voices of a new, feminist and critical public within the rap scene. In her interviews with rappers, she also addresses their feelings, which is unusual for interviews of this kind. Davoudvandi tries to connect the two worlds of rap and feminism and is an "ambassador of sisterhood".^[4]