

Norma Schneider is a freelance journalist, author and editor from Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She writes for various media, mostly about culture, society, protest, and the LGBTIQ* community in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Her book “Punk statt Putin – Gegenkultur in Russland” on protest, oppositional art and counterculture in Russia was published in April 2023. Currently, she is researching LGBTIQ* rights and queer communities in Central Asia.