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...
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...
Does our fear of the perpetrator make our respect for the perpetrator higher and our expectations lower compared to other people, or is just not being seen/heard always more severe than the violence itself?
Warning: the article contains spoilers.
Will and Testament is a novel written by Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth...
They want women to accept to be slaves to men and give up their demands for right “in order not to give way to LGBTI+”, – on the other hand, the government should continue with the phrase “of course we don’t have a problem with women’s rights”.
“The family consists...
The second edition of Filma. Feminist Film Festival based in Ukraine, took place online between November 24 - December 9, 2022. The festival’s program focuses on the films about migration caused by the war and dedicated to the ones who have been forced to leave their homes because of...
It seems to me that feminist utopia can only be intuitive, since the feminist movement is not a social project that adapts itself to a predetermined telos; it does not consist of coherent stops that follows a sequence; with no guarantee it will eventually succeed.
The first ever feminist utopia...