Passing and coming out are two divergent individual strategies historically associated with
the LGBTQ+ community as they struggle to fit in with normative expectations at work and in …

In Violent Intimacies, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and
resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the …

Many gay villages (or “gayborhoods”) arose in the wake of the gay liberation movement
attracted a good deal of academic research within the last 40 years. Unfortunately, this hyper …

Transgender/gender non-conforming (TGNC) people and especially people of color face
homelessness and housing precarity in the United States at much higher rates than other …

Drawing on a digital ethnography of Istanbul Pride events in 2020 and in-depth interviews
with LGBTI+ activists from Turkey, this study examines the transformations in the sites and …

The immense global surge in the anti-gender discourse, driven by right-wing populism and
appealing to hegemonic masculinity, appears to be a calculated strategy aimed at …

We take feminist+ solidarity to be a crucial and precious path for the future of not just politics
but of life on this planet. The+ is a reminder of the many other frameworks of analysis and …

This chapter discusses the migration experiences of queer exiles in Turkey. It highlights the
impact of national migration policies on their daily lives, before going on to shed light on …

Based on in-depth interviews and secondary data, this study investigates how the LGBTI+
movement in Turkey establishes and uses networks at the individual and organizational …

This thesis scrutinizes the construction of transnational governance of queer migration,
which is operationalized within the borders of Turkey and spread to the Global North. Based …