Women who poisoned their husbands in the Ottoman Empire / Interview with Ebru Aykut
Ebru Aykut is a faculty member at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Sociology. She received her PhD from Boğaziçi University Atatürk Institute...
Background of TERF dispute: How did it all come down to the locker rooms?
There are some people in this topsy-turvy world who reduce patriarchy to biology and link it to the locker rooms, and therefrom formulate a...
6-7 September of Women, The Istanbul Pogrom
“I was 9 when the pogrom happened. We were living on the Emlak Street as it was called back then. I remember men shouting...
The Crisis of Care/Social Reproduction and Beyond
Shifting the attention from inside the family to outside, hence considering the matter merely from the point of view of capital results, as is...
On “the Patriarchy of Things” / Interview with Rebekka Endler
“The Patriarchy of Things” is a 2021 book by journalist Rebekka Endler. In it, Endler holds a magnifying glass to many areas including the...
Brief past and present of transgender people in Turkey: Ülker Sokak (Street), Esat and...
The impunity for what happened in Ülker Sokak paved the way for the attacks in Eryaman and Esat, apart from hurting consciences. The impunity...
Sexism in the DSM diagnostic system
Biological reductionism in psychiatry obscures and trivializes social factors that play a crucial role in the development, expression, treatment, and consequences of the illness.
The...
Frankenstein and the Birth Myth
Mary Shelly who became a mother during her teenage years through an extramarital affair was the first author to introduce birth to fiction 200...
17 May 1987: March for Solidarity against Battering
In Istanbul, “March against Battering” was held as the first permitted and mass women’s protest after the 12 September 1980 military coup d’état. The...
11 April 1930: The first rally of the Turkish Women Union, a history of...
The association which was initially founded on June 16, 1923 as the Women's People Party and later changed to Turkish Women Union (as women's...
