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...
Ferrante’s Latest Novel: The Lying Life of Adults
Ferrante narrates through the stories of different women how the "value" of a body can be raised or reduced with a word, or especially...
The irresistible sagginess of my boobs and the unbearable lightness of not wearing bras
As the experts who are feeling sorry for us have become addicted to giving advice, my woman-mothers and I have already made peace with...
Why should I wrap my mind around it?
I simply didn't care. This was not because I put aside thinking or I lost my capacity to draw conclusions, but because I went...
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 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...
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...
9 June 2009: European Court of Human Rights’ historic decision against male violence: Nahide...
ECtHR penalized Turkey on June 9, 2009 for not protecting Nahide Akgün (Opuz) from male violence. With this decision, for the first time, a...
The silent power of open offices: introverts
We are struggling against feelings of anger, anxiety, and inadequacy stemming from the questions which are asked to a pot plant but not to...
On good guys…
So, did you ever pose a threat to the dominion of "good guys" or voiced your ideas which confront theirs? In short, did you...
