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gender scholar/anthropologist. migrant professor with "a heavy accent" @wgssrutgersu. art, fiction, dance lover/warrior. (eng account) artwork:f. monteiro
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Joined February 2022
As the world burns down and the genocide continues, our share in happiness keeps deteriorating. This is one of those rare moments: My book “Violent Intimacies” has been awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize by the Association for Queer Anthropology. Grateful for this recognition!🧿🍾💫.
Congratulations to @aslizeng, who has won the Ruth Benedict Prize from @QueerAnthro for her book "Violent Intimacies," and to Naisargi N. Davé, whose book "Indifference" received honorable mention.
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Reading (again and again) Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies for my grad class. It never gets old in a settler colonial and genocidal world. It should be a must read for every grad program.
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Let's not erase Aysenur Ezgi Eygi's political identity: She was a socialist and a feminist. The same police officers who carry her coffin and nationally mourn her massacre would beat her if she were in a feminist or socialist protest in the streets of Turkey.
The funeral of American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by an Israeli sniper during a settlement demonstration in the occupied West Bank last week, took place in Didim, Turkey, where she was born.
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One of those rare gems on social media. James Baldwin lived in Istanbul between 1961 and 1971, and in this video recording, he is sailing through the beautiful Bosporus.
Amerikalı yazar James Baldwin, New York'ta tanıştığı tiyatrocu Engin Cezzar'ın davetiyle İstanbul'a gelir. İstanbul’a hayran kalan Baldwin 1961-1971 yılları arasında İstanbul’da yaşar. Bu dönemde, kitaplar ve tiyatro oyunlarından oluşan altı eserini burada kaleme alır, Bir Başka
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The proofs are finally here!! I dedicate this work to the memory of Hande Kader and trans feminists in Turkey 🩷🩵🤍
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Rutgers students have just started their pro-Palestinian encampment. Power to the students! Free Palestine 🇵🇸🧿✊🏽
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There's a powerful Jewish presence among pro-Palestinian protestors on campuses, yet mainstream media keeps erasing their voices and presence. Power to these students for imagining a world of co-existence through solidarity, love, and care, showing its seeds in their praxis.
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Batman, a Kurdish city, has been marked by the highest women's suicide rate in Turkey for years. However, now Gulistan Sonuk, a Kurdish woman, has won the municipal elections with the highest vote rate in Turkey. Jin, Jiyan, Azadi! 🔥.
Türkiye genelinde %64.52 ile en yüksek oy alan belediye başkanı Gülistan Sönük oldu.
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My mom keeps forgetting that she is my mother or she is a mother but I’ve embraced her memory and carrying it with me for both of us now. Happy mother’s day for those mothers with Alzheimer’s and their children who try different ways to celebrate. I see you! ❤️.
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Here is a list of great books we will be reading/discussing in my grad seminar, Agency, Subjectivity and Social Change
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Violent Intimacies has a cover now! . It will be out in February from @DukePress, right on time for Spring courses. Available for pre-order at: . 30% off with code E24ZENG.
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Started my day with wonderful news. My book on sex work in Turkey has reached its FORTH printing!!! Both the book and I have been growing older, taking different paths in life. Grateful for readers’ love and support over years 🙏🏼 Happy 11th birthday to İktidarın Mahremiyeti!!! 💥
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Meridians’ (@M3RIDIANS) stellar new special issue "Feminist Mournings” is out/edited by the wonderful Kimberly Juanita Brown and Jyoti Puri. Thrilled to be part of this issue with a piece on corpse washers, touch as care work & gendered limits of mourning
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Turkey, Azerbaijan and Israel are partners in genocide and colonization. They learn a lot from each other!. Salut to Kurdish, Palestinian and Armenian resistance and struggles of decolonization. #FreeRojava #FreePalestine #FreeArtsakh.
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In a few weeks, Violent Intimacies will be out in the world! Lots of hearbeats! 💗.#TransStudies #Transfeminism #MiddleEast #Turkey #UrbanGeography #Anthro #Medicine #Law #Statecraft #Violence #Worldmaking.
"Violent Intimacies" by @aslizeng is one of the great new titles coming out this February. #LGBTQBooks #AnthroTwitter.
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Hot off the press!!“Death and Afterlives in the Middle East,” is in CSSAAME’s (@DukePress) latest issue: Thrilled and humbled to be in the company of great scholars/friends who generously contributed to its fruition, and proud to be its editor.
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Metin Cihan summarizes Turkey-Israel trade: . - We send Israel the fuel we buy from Azerbaijan. - We send 65% of Israel's steel. We send 95% of its cement. - A Turkish company produces 7% of Israel's electricity. - Barbed wire also comes from Turkey. #BDSTurkiye.
Metin Cihan, Türkiye-İsrail ticaretini özetledi:. -İsrail'e, Azerbaycan'dan aldığımız yakıtı gönderiyoruz. -Hammadde ihtiyaçlarını karşılıyoruz. İsrail'in çeliğinin %65'ini gönderiyoruz. Çimentosunun %95'ini gönderiyoruz. -İsrail'in elektriğinin %7'sini bir Türk firması
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Introduction to my forthcoming book, Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World is now available for download at @DukePress. I am grateful for the editorial support I received from the amazing @sandraylk and Courtney Berger.
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So exciting!! 🧿✨.Duke Uni Press is offering a 50% discount on pre-orders until December 8. If you place your order by then, you will have the book by mid-February. Discount code: CYBER23.
Drawing on Istanbul's trans communal life, Asli Zengin’s (@aslizeng) “Violent Intimacies” traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Read the free intro now! #TransStudies #AnthroTwitter
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As soon as you add a non-Western place name in your book/article title, how quickly it gets perceived as an area studies paper and stops being a theoretical contribution. It is frustrating and exhausting especially when it happens in critical studies circles.
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A body of religious orthodoxy who claims to be the “leaders” of Islam in N.America monopolizes and orientalizes Islam. They are swamped with their denial of and disgust for trans/queer lives. Well, I have bad news for you: queer/trans Muslims exist and we will continue to exist!.
Over 150 prominent Muslim scholars across North America have jointly written a statement of monumental importance entitled: “Navigating Differences: Clarifying Sexual and Gender Identity in Islam." . Read full statement at:.
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Soon it will have a life of its own✨A terrifying feeling after spending longer than a decade with/in/alongside/around it 🧿
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Oh gosh! I am one more step closer to the book. Copyedits arrived in my inbox this morning ✨ Stay tuned for "Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World" @DukePress.
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I voted in New York with rage and frustration. I cannot smile while being forced to suck up all that anti-Kurdish, anti-refugee discourse unleashed especially this past week. Yet the other option is an imperialist, misogynist, anti-LGBTI, anti-Kurd fascist and treating refugees
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Life has been intense and challenging lately. I just want to take a short break from this intensity to share some good news with you in these bleak times.
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I received the most touching email from a scholar I don't know and it teared me up: . "I wanted to get in touch to say how much I love your book Violent Intimacies. I’m a newly-tenured trans academic in the UK who is slowly coming out at work. .
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Long live our queer-trans feminist solidarity and struggle! . Happy International Womxn's Day! .💜🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✊🏽
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Last week today was your funeral mom. You spent your last year of illness calling your mom, wanting to go to her. Now you are in your eternal rest next to grandma. So difficult to make sense of your nonexistence. I miss you dearly. Rest in peace and power mom.
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Today is the anniversary of the Armenian genocide, which has not ended but still continues in the material and symbolic privileges created for Turks, in the assimilation and denial politics of the Turkish state. I commemorate with respect and shame all the massacred Armenians.
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I will have a book talk in Istanbul on June 8th. This will be a special event, as Violent Intimacies returns to its home. The talk will be in Turkish. If you want to order Violent Intimacies and many other great titles, Duke University Press has a 50% Spring sale through May 24
Our Spring Sale continues through Friday! Save 50% on books & journal issues with coupon MAY50 through May 24.
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I do not accept the MESA meeting to be business as usual this year. I do not want to present any academic paper. All I have been thinking for weeks now is the ongoing genocide in Palestine. I feel so useless.
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Pogrom against Syrian migrants in Turkey. Turkish people have been burning down Syrian people's cars, setting their houses on fire and chanting fascist slogans in the streets of Kayseri since last night.
Kayseri’deyiz. İnternet erişimimiz kısıtlı olduğu için izlenimlerimi bu zincirde anlatacağım. Dün başlayan olaylar, havanın kararmasının ardından Danişmentgazi Mahallesi’nde yeniden başladı. Binlerce kişi, Suriyelilerin yoğun yaşadığı mahallelerde “Ne mutlu Türk’üm diyene”,
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Many thanks to my department (@WGSSRutgersU) for promoting Violent Intimacies. You can use the code E24ZENG to enjoy a 30% discount on your order. @DukePress.
WGSS Faculty Book Release!🚨. Check out Dr. Asli Zengin's (@aslizeng) most recent publication, "Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World". More here:
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Our feminist tent is now in the camp which was built in the aftermath of the Adiyaman earthquake. We have been receiving great attention from women inside and outside the camp. Long live feminist solidarity!.
Adıyaman'da Afet için Feminist Dayanışma Grubu'nun kadın çadırındayız. Şehir merkezinde ve köylerde dağıtımlar devam ediyor. Yaşasın feminist dayanışmamız 💜
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Salut to the Kurdish struggle for democracy! Abdullah Zeydan, the Kurdish mayor of Wan has been reinstated thanks to the thousands of protestors in the streets for the last two days. I have tears of joy. Her biji! ✊🏽🔥.
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This is just a snip of the feminist earthquake aid work on the ground in Istanbul. We are organizing the Purple Truck campaign to meet the specific needs of women, LGBTI+s and children impacted by the earthquake. Everyone’s care, love and dedication is just beyond words 💜✊🏽
Deprem bölgesine göndereceğimiz hijyen kitlerimizi müthiş bir feminist dayanışma içerisinde hazırlıyoruz. Birbirimizin çaresiyiz #MorTır #AfeticinFeministDayanışma
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I have been waiting for this special on Kurdish Queer Studies edited by dear @hsandalwilson! A much needed contribution to queer studies in the Middle East and beyond. Cant wait to read them all! 👏🏽✨.
So proud & happy to announce that the Kurdish Studies Journal is back! .@Kurdish_Journal .#TwitterKurds #KurdishStudies . 🔥First vol. with a special issue on Kurdish Queer Studies edited by @hsandalwilson 🌈🏳️⚧️.
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Bloody explosion in Taksim, Istanbul. I am fine. We don't know the details yet, as they have implemented an immediate censurship on the news. My bro was only five-min walk away from the explosion point. Thankfully he is safe and sound. Fuck this shit!.
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Why do we need feminist responses to disasters? Here is my two cents on our collective work as the Feminist Solidarity Group for Disaster in the earthquake zone in Turkey and Kurdistan
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@dr_duchesne I think you may also greatly benefit from decolonial methodology b/c the first university, the University of Al-Karaouine, was established by a Morrocan woman, Fatima al-Fihri in Fez in 859 AD.
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Anthro graduate students, don't miss this workshop on publishing that is sponsored by @QueerAnthro (Association for Queer Anthropology) and @mes_aaa (Middle East Section). Friday, December 6.1:30pm to 3:30pm (EST).Virtual (Zoom): .
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Wrapping up a whole year in Turkey. Sabbatical is sadly over. Last bits of Istanbul to take in with me 💙
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I just finished reading this wonderful book. Each chapter is a piece of heart embedded in Kurdish women's freedom struggle and political imagination. Üstündağ (@Nazanstnda) writes with such political care and attention to the worlds, words, bodies, and flesh of Kurdish women.
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In our earthquake relief camp in Adıyaman, there is a tent reserved for children’s educational and recreational activities and located close to our Women’s Tent. Its schedule is at 10am-12pm and 2pm-4pm every day.
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From today’s grief ritual for the Palestinians who got killed by Israel #AAACASCA2023 #StopGazaGenocide
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Their war on pro-Palestinian students, academic freedom and democratic campus life keeps expanding and intensifying. So does the anti-colonial student movement! My heart is with the Columbia students who are making history today! ✊🏽 Shame on you, Minouche Shafik!.
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Finally presenting in person some parts from my forthcoming book at home, in Istanbul!💥 I am grateful for my sabbatical for gifting me with great opportunities to reunite, reconnect and socialize with colleagues, students and activists in Turkey. I've been longing for this!
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Earthquake aid and solidarity has been growing fast and solid in Turkey. But so does a racist and discriminatory language that targets especially migrants and refugees in the earthquake zone.
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This is heartbreaking. And there are many other dead refugees and migrants whose loved ones could not even travel to Turkey to claim their dead bodies and organize a proper funeral for them. It is hell on so many levels for a devastating number of people.
Samar Zora's twin brother, Saad, who came to Turkey to try and find her in a collapsed building in Antakya.“This is our situation but this is one of thousands. We are sitting and crying with local Turkish people" #TurkeySyriaEarthquakes
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Gülistan Sönük was a Kurdish mayor elected with the highest number of votes in Turkey (64.5%). She was replaced by a trustee this morning. She is defending her position as mayor and resisting the trustee policies in front of Batman Municipality.
Bu sabah Mardin ve Halfeti belediyeleri ile beraber Batman'da da kadınları ve LGBTİQ+ları domuz bağıyla katleden Hizbullah'a karşı direnen Gülistan Sönük'ün yerine kayyum atandı. İrademiz ve direnişimiz yok sayılamaz: .Ne üniversitede ne memlekette atanmış kayyum istemiyoruz!
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Thank you for this exciting book talk invitation dear @BrammerAyse. Looking forward to being in conversation with Dilara and the NYU faculty and students!.
📢Upcoming event alert!!. Join us on Thursday, April 18 at 5:00pm (EST) for a wonderful book talk/lecture by Aslı Zengin and Dilara Çalışkan!. To attend in person: To attend online:
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2024-2025 Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Gazan Women Pursuing PhDs. Application deadline July 15.
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@ADK_Kelsey Mahmood Darwish - Memory for Forgetfulness . Dionne Brand - A Map to the Door of No Return. Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. Etel Adnan - In the heart of the heart of another country.
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Today is a scary day of organized hate and warmongering against trans and queer lives in Turkey. Multiple organizations, with extreme right-wing and orthodox religious agendas, are gathering under the name of “Great Family Meeting”+.
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YEAS!!!! It is finally here in the house! We can touch it, smell it, feel it and most importantly read it by flipping the pages. So proud of you @mayamikdashi! You produced this gem! And you did it so brilliantly!! ✨🦋💕
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Thank you dear Tunay Altay (@TunayAltay1) for your kind invitation and dear Omar Kasmani (@kasmani_o) for accepting to be a discussant on my book panel. Very excited for our conversation! See you all in Berlin soon 💥.
Join us at @HumboldtUni for an inspiring book talk with Asli Zengin (@aslizeng), where she will present her most recent book, "Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World." 📅 Date: June 25 ⏰ Time: 16:00. More here:
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This important letter on the recent Azerbaijani ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Artsakh/Karabakh should not go unnoticed amidst our ceasefire demands for Palestinians in Gaza.
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This is central Beirut, my partner’s neighborhood! 💔 Fuck Israeli terror and all those monsters who have been incessantly in support of this unleashed colonial violence.
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Türkiye'deki transların yaşadığı gündelik şiddet biçimleri ve örgütledikleri siyasetle ilgili yaptığım çalışma yakın zamanda İngilizce olarak kitaplaştı. İlk kitap söyleşisini sevgili arkadaşım @hazalozvaris'la Türkçe yapmaktan büyük mutluluk duyuyorum.
📌Transların gündelik yaşamı şiddetle nasıl örülüyor; devlet, din ve aile nasıl ittifak kuruyor?. ✍️ Hazal Özvarış’ın söyleşisi….
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What a fascinating issue! There is a great conversation between Dilar Dirik and Nancy Agabian on "Solidarity from Below from Kurdistan to Artsakh".
⚡️ PRE-ORDER OUR NEW ISSUE: "Asian Imperialisms" (September–October 2024) examines Japanese, Chinese, Russian (and the Soviet Union), Indian, Pakistani, Iranian, and Turkish (alongside Azerbaijan) imperial and colonial formations. GET YOUR COPY HERE:
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Rutgers students are currently taking their encampment down because Rutgers University has accepted 8 out of their 10 demands! This sets a higher standard for other university administrations. The demands will be released soon in writing. Power to our students!.
Rutgers students have just started their pro-Palestinian encampment. Power to the students! Free Palestine 🇵🇸🧿✊🏽
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My essay “Caring for the Dead: Corpse Washers, Touch, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey" received the honorable mention of the 2023 Paula J. Gidding Best Article Award.
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Soon I will be giving book talks on Violent Intimacies (@DukePress) in Utrecht, Maastricht, and Berlin. Hope to see some of you at one of these events. Feel free to share this information with anyone who might be interested! Grateful for these opportunities ✨
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Dosya editörlüğünü yaptığım Kaos Q+’nın yeni sayısı “Ölüm, Yas ve Hayaletler”in tanıtımı için haftaya İstanbul ve Ankara’da buluşuyoruz. İlgilenen herkesi bekleriz 👇🏽.
Kaos Q ’nın “Ölüm, Yas ve Hayaletler” söyleşileri İstanbul ve Ankara’da . İstanbul.🗓️4 Ocak Perşembe, 19.00.📍Frankenştayn Kitabevi. Ankara.🗓️6 Ocak Cumartesi, 16.00.📍Ka Stüdyo.
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Women, queer and trans people in Istanbul are organizing a protest in front of the Israeli consulate today at 7:30pm #StopGenocideInGaza #FreePalaestine
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Critical Studies of Iraq at Rutgers-Newark in partnership with the Palestinian Feminist Collective invites you to the webinar:. Feminists for a Free Palestine: Voices from Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Iran & beyond . March 9, 2pm. Further info👇🏼.
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My first book interview is in Turkish with a skilled journalist, a dear friend @hazalozvaris. Violent Intimacies is a product of a decade-long intellectual and political labor situated within queer, trans and feminist lives and struggles in Istanbul.
📌Transların gündelik yaşamı şiddetle nasıl örülüyor; devlet, din ve aile nasıl ittifak kuruyor?. ✍️ Hazal Özvarış’ın söyleşisi….
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Coming back to Boston for a short trip! Excited to see friends and colleagues, and meet new ones this Monday! Thanks @MITanthropology for the invitation.
This coming Monday 10/2/23! 4-5:30pm.Rm. 14S-130 The Nexus, Hayden Library.Aslı Zengin, Ph.D. - "Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday, Extralegality and Police Violence in Turkey".
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Erdogan's crocodile tears for Palestine are exposed by the Istanbul police's torture of the youth who protested the AKP government's ongoing trade with Israel during the genocide. They were arrested and tortured while calling for divestment from the trade with Israel.
Katil İsrail, işbirlikçi sermaye! . #İsrailleTicareteDurDe diyen milyonların sesi olmak için çıktığımız İstiklal Caddesi'nde 30 küsur arkadaşımız yerlerde sürüklenerek ters kelepçe gözaltına alındı. Biz kavgayı onurlu Filistin halkından öğrendik. Gözaltılar serbest bırakılsın!
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Upcoming book talks on Violent Intimacies. Many thanks to those generous colleagues who support trans/queer/feminist scholarship in the Middle East. Hope to see some of you soon! @DukePress
WGSS Faculty Book Release!🚨. Check out Dr. Asli Zengin's (@aslizeng) most recent publication, "Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World". More here:
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The new KaosQ+ special issue, "Death, Mourning and Ghosts" is out! .It shows lubunyas’ creative work of mourning and its transformative capacities into artful living and freedom fights in queer/trans death worlds. As its guest editor, I hold this collective work close to my heart.
📖Senelik hakemli akademik dergi KaosQueer+’nın 12. sayısı “Ölüm, yas ve hayaletler” dosyasıyla çıktı. 📍Sayının editörü Aslı Zengin: KaosQ+, artık aramızda olmayan lubunyaların hayaletlerinin yaşayanlarla nasıl konuştuğuna bakıyor.
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That is why we decided to turn our roundtable on queer/trans perspectives on the ME studies into a solidarity conversation about the unfolding genocide in Palestine and the Israeli war against Palestinian women, children, queer and trans people.
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Two more earthquakes within seconds in Antakya half an hour ago. One is 6.4 and the other is 5.8. I cannot imagine what earthquake survivors are living through while they are still burying their dead from two weeks ago. There is not enough words to express this hell!.
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I cannot stop thinking about Iris since yesterday. The trans-misogynist state in Turkey has been punishing and violating our comrades, friends, and members of our community in vicious ways. Iris's critical tweets about the recent racist anti-Syrian riots have put her in jail.
Our friend, LGBTQ+ rights activist Iris Mozalar, was arrested yesterday on charges of 'inciting public hatred and hostility' after her home was raided on the pretext of her tweets criticising recent anti-refugee violence in Turkey. #irisyalnızdeğildir #irisisnotalone
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+I hope the above isn’t an intrusion, I recently decided to write letters of thanks as I don’t think this happens enough in academia.". I am so grateful for this kindness and connection that my book has enabled💜.
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We are raising funds to cover the costs of Lambda Istanbul's new space! Years ago, Lambda-Ist had to close its previous center, but now we have an exciting moment to establish a new home. Please consider supporting the queer and trans communal life in Ist.
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Newrozun faşizmlere karşı özgürlük mücadelelerinin kesiştiği, beraber omuz omuza halay çektiği bir bayram alanı olması gerekir. Lubunyalara yumruk atıp saldıran bir şiddetin örgütlenmesine izin veremez. Veriyorsa, buna karşı ses çıkarmalı ve bununla hemen mücadele etmeliyiz.
Bugün İstanbul'da gerçekleştirilen Newroz mitinginde LGBTİ+'lar kitlenin fiziksel saldırısına uğradı. Güçlükle alandan dışarı çıkan lubunyalar, “Çektiğiniz o halaylar biz burada dışarıdayken özgür değil" dedi. Video:@zilanazadd .
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I’m SO excited that this FINALLY came in the mail! Very much looking forward to reading Violent Intimacies. Congrats @aslizeng!
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Bu Ağustos ayında politik antropoloji üzerine beraber düşünüp tartışmak isteyenleri Şirince’ye bekleriz. Şahane insanlarla bir arada olacağız ⚡️@SevgiGoral @eiremaz.
Bir yanda disiplinin erken dönemlerinde kültürel bakımdan ilkel atfedilen toplumsal unsurların iktidar, güç ve çatışma ilişkileriyle bağlantısını kurup antropolojiyi daima şimdi ve burada kılan veçhesi; diğer yanda ise politik iklimdeki çatlakların izini sürerek direnişin ve
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The International Critical Geographies Group's powerful statement in solidarity with Palestine. Feel free to sign and share it widely.
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The ongoing exhibition “Occupied City 1918-1923: Politics and Daily Life in Istanbul” has a section on sex work where you can see a rare photo archive of the red-light districts in Pera and Galata from 1923-25. @Ist_Arast_Enst
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CFP for a workshop on "Queerness and Gender Diversity in/to Migration: Norms, Discourses, Control Mechanisms." .It will be held in Istanbul on April 26, 2024. Deadline is December 5. For further details 👇🏽.
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#JamesBaldwin . "One of the most shocking and daring plays staged in Turkish theaters was banned by the Istanbul Governorship on February 7, 1970. The ban on the play, which was watched by 30,000 people in 60 days, did not last long." . - Turkish Press in 1970.via @cazplak.
JUST IN! 'Music For Turkish Theater 1970' by Don Cherry / Okay Temiz. A 1970-recorded soundtrack to a James Baldwin play about a gay relationship in an Istanbul prison. Immediately banned, it was ridiculously forward-thinking for its time to say the least.
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I finished teaching my last Spring course. I have been teaching nonstop since 2011 and finally it is time for a break and breath. Welcome sabbatical!! It feels surreal and liberating.
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just concluded a die-in commemorating the thousands of children killed by Israel in this latest war on Gaza. thank you to all who participated and bore witness #AAACASCA2023
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My dear friend/colleague Alize Arıcan (@alizearican) and I had a great conversation about my book over her thoughtful and engaged questions regarding Violent Intimacies. Feeling lucky to have such a careful and caring reader 💗 @DukePress.
Every now and then, one gets to chat with a friend about their book, after having watched them work through it for years, as I did with @aslizeng (@RUgenderstudies) on Violent Intimacies (@DukePress). Check it out on @NewBooksNetwork @NewBooksAnthro:
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An unchanging grammar of Turkish colonial racism against Kurds in Turkey: Confiscation, torture, extralegality. The state has seized municipal offices in Kurdish towns, removed locally elected mayors, and subjected protestors to detentions and torture.
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“For the first time in Rutgers University’s 257-year history, the unions representing its 9,000 faculty and graduate student workers — virtually its entire teaching force — have called a strike, beginning 9 a.m. Monday.”
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