6 March 2004: “We want shelters not graves” demonstration
After Güldünya Tören’s death, who was raped by a relative and got pregnant and then killed following the decision taken by her family, a...
Background of the “field”: Researching Southeast Asian women in Turkey as a feminist anthropologist
Being a feminist researcher in the field can make it extra difficult to reach the information we hope to gain. While women aim to...
Know thy age, know thy place! Really?
Who needs all these useless injunctions about what can and cannot be done and which pose obstacles before collective living practices and create new...
4 February 1983: The 4th Page of Somut Magazine
Somut (Concrete) magazine is a periodical publication of the Writers’ Cooperative (Yazko) which was active in the period of September 12 . It is...
La petit mort, little death
Orgasm is sometimes experienced so intensely that the desire to live almost succumbs to the death drive and the person wants to get rid...
10 May 1987: First feminist street protest in Ankara: “So, you love your mother...
After women in Istanbul started the Campaign against Battering, feminists in Ankara decided to organize a street protest against battering. They planned to sell...
Feminist imagination between recovery and emancipation
We would like to share what we have learned about the research project titled “A Feminist Recovery Plan for COVID-19 and Beyond: Learning from...
“Whether you like it or not, we are part of this economy” / Interview...
We had the chance to meet with the Kurdish women's movement and its institutions that came together under the roof of Tevgera Jinên Azad...
Marriage is a call for political action, so is divorce
When their lives meet with that of a man, women are expected to take a break from the life outside to undertake domestic chores,...
So, they say when socialism comes, foreplay will be history…
From whichever side you look at it, there is a positive correlation between socialism and sexual satisfaction of women.
Cecilia cannot help but cry as...
