A tribute to Anne Sylvestre
On the 30th of November, a French female singer-songwriter passed away.
Her name was Anne Sylvestre.
In my imagination, she is a red and green hooded...
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...
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...
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...
16 July 1998: Muslim feminist Konca Kuriş was abducted by Hizbullah
On 16 July 1998, Muslim feminist Konca Kuriş was abducted by three gunmen from her house in Mersin, after her husband was overpowered. Worried...
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...
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...
A Feminist Political Economy of Domestic Murders of Women and Girls in Turkey
Whether these crimes are framed and represented as intimate partner violence, ordinary honour killings or customary killings, they all have material root causes that...
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...
Statement from the March 8, 21st Feminist Night March in Istanbul
On February 6, we woke up to a disastrous earthquake that caused serious destruction in 10 cities in Turkey. According to the official figures,...
