Don’t die but live a life of great misery! / Interview with Yıldız Tar from Ankara LGBTI+ Earthquake Solidarity
Cemile Gizem Dinçer -
We are sharing our interview with Yıldız Tar from Ankara LGBTI+ Earthquake Solidarity.
How did Ankara LGBTI+ Earthquake Solidarity come together?
Immediately after the earthquake, a general Lubunya Earthquake Solidarity was established to work across the country. Apart from that, since Ankara and Mersin are the cities with the highest migration from...
In the aftermath of the disaster, one of the issues we need to focus on the most is memorylessness, fatalism and being convinced by symbolic indicators (such as halalism). I believe that how we react to such a massive death and destruction, and whether we keep our memory of...
As we deliver materials a woman says, “give me a broom, I am cleaning the tent with my hands.” To whose ears these words would reach and how the burden of taking care of the children, the elderly, the disabled as well as the men, who have not even...
“Women continue the pace of life again” / Interview with feminists who went to the disaster zone
Elif Ege - Yasemin Köker -
“When I talked to the women here, I felt both anger and sadness when I heard about this whole process they were going through, but I also felt solidarity a lot as a feminist. When we talked to each other, I felt that both I and they were mutually...
On February 6, we woke up to a disastrous earthquake that caused serious destruction in 10 cities in Turkey. According to the official figures, so far over 46.000 people lost their lives under the rubble and the figures keep increasing. We are well aware that the liability for the...
“The Patriarchy of Things” is a 2021 book by journalist Rebekka Endler. In it, Endler holds a magnifying glass to many areas including the configuration of public space, medical diagnosis and treatment, technological development, and the formation of culture. She provides a comprehensive overview of how the world around...
Asking the question of marriage during gynecological examination by saying “Patients want it”, hiding behind pretexts
Over the weekend, twitter, our blissless bliss environment, witnessed a mind-boggling debate. When a twitter user, who was (apparently) asked “are you married” at a gynecology appointment, complained (rightly) that doctors should change this...
Interview with the journal Jineolojî following the assassination of Nagihan Akarsel / “Nagihan’s resistance, discourse and semantic world should reach all women”
Çatlak Zemin -
In her writings, speeches, and life, Nagihan showed how emotion, intuition, meaning can be intertwined with thought and action in a period when we are constantly exposed to hardened and dogmatized knowledge and practices. Hers was a great mastery, and it always amazed the others.
The murder of Nagihan Akarsel,...
The problem is not that women’s bodies are a matter of medicine. It’s rather that women’s bodies are not a matter of medicine beyond sexist norms that stem from patriarchy which are projected on diseases/conditions particular to women.
In this article, I will mainly try to demonstrate how the historical...
The protests that started in Iran after the murder of Jîna (Mahsa) Amînî by the morality police on September 17, completed its first month. Feminists in the diaspora also organized quite actively during this time. We started to think about what we can do since we are already in...