So yes, we will continue to exist and our existence will continue to be a terrifying nightmare for all kinds of political regimes in the west or in the rest, in democracies and autocracies.
01.03.2026 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So yes, we will continue to exist and our existence will continue to be a terrifying nightmare for all kinds of political regimes in the west or in the rest, in democracies and autocracies.
01.03.2026 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oppressed and marginalized communties have layers of induced pain from multiple sources of hegemony paralyzing our muscles yet our minds are still functioning well. Our imagination of liberation for ourselves and for each other is away and beyond your dialectical multipolar war plans.
01.03.2026 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Even one's will to dismantle the oppresive hegemony in their lands is ripped off from them by transnational hegemonies in the era of neocolonial capitalist imperialism. Not only our life but also our will is devalued and dismissed.
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* Defne, co-author of this publication, is now legally targeted for engaging in LGBTI+ rights advocacy, along with Yıldız and Enes: www.iglyo.org/news/turkiye...
* Also new rumors spread about the reintroduction of a draft law aimed at criminalizing LGBTIAQ+ existence:
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“I Am Very Happy That We Are Such Beautiful People”: Lived Experiences, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health in an LGBTIQ+ Community in Turkey Buket Kara, Defne Güzel, Semih Özkarakaş, Doğa Eroğlu-Şah, Umut Şah Co-produced by LGBTIQ+ activists and academic researchers, this study gave voice to an understudied LGBTIQ+ community in Turkey to narrate their lived experiences and examined their exposure to discrimination in various areas of their lives in relation to their mental health. The study utilized a mixed-method design, where 61 individuals who identified as LGBTIQ+, aged 18–47, responded to an online survey. The quantitative tools included questionnaires assessing mental well-being, psychological symptoms, resilience, and perceived discrimination. Qualitatively, participants responded to open-ended questions regarding their lived experiences, such as coming out, access to healthcare, and self-care practices. Participants were frequently exposed to various forms of discrimination, which were associated with lower mental well-being and higher psychological symptoms. However, personal resilience factors lowered or diminished the negative role of discrimination on mental health. Identity-based lived experiences and practices further provided an in-depth picture of life of LGBTIQ+ individuals in this community and how they overcome adversity.
Such a timely* publication about the psychological tolls of LGBTIAQ+ discrimination and resilience as buffer in Turkey, specifically with participants from Bursa based on a activist-researcher co-production research with mixed-methods!
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Great event to look farward on Monday
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Made my day💜🖤
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Great conversation on rejecting the nation state, Black peoples' statelessness, immigration, Obama's ICE, liberal urge to vote, going beyond colonial-imperial "boomerang", grief-grievances and hope.
"state is a colonial instrument; it's a hierarchical class instrument"
KGSN and ECR organize a Teach-in & Emergency Solidarity Meeting hosting speakers with direct, grounded knowledge of what happens now in Rojava. Join to understand what is unfolding and to learn about solidarity actions
For zoom link:
info@defendrojava.org
More info for solidarity with Unis in Rojava:
drive.google.com/file/d/1aEdK...
Lubun psikoloji master/doktora öğrencilerine başvuru hazırlamada (CV düzenleme, niyet mektubu, ilgili işleri sıralama) yardım ve referans mektubu sağlamak için buralardayım.
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Zürih Üni'de LGBTIAQ+'ların sağlık ve iyilik halini ilgilendiren bireysel, toplumsal ve sistemsel etkenler üzerine (alternatif yöntemlere açık) butlar butu araştırma projesinde burslu doktora/postdoc duyurusu:
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• For many, peace is mistakenly equated with state/military "order" and security, rather than the active presence of social justice and equality.
• True liberation requires de-ideologizing one's everyday realities and recognizing how neoliberal individuality masks up collective exploitation.
• Collective beliefs about what "others" think of peace often serve as semantic barriers, helping the privileged avoid challenging truths about their own privilege.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS:
• Privileged groups often define peace as "negative peace"—the mere absence of visible conflict or war—which ignores the ongoing suffering and structural oppression of minoritized communities.
• In the Turkish language, "barış" refers to interpersonal or intergroup contexts, while internal peace is called "huzur". In English, "peace" is used for both, which allows U.S. participants to more easily conflate social peace with personal feelings of tranquility.
19.01.2026 09:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0• Turkish participants showed some variability and contestation of hegemonic views (maybe the overt state dominance makes it easier to critique). White American participants' representations were more homogenous (maybe the color-blind nature of neoliberalism makes systemic racism harder to see).
19.01.2026 09:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0• In Turkey, the belief that the state/military contributes to peace was detached from political ideology; the state is central to almost all Turkish ideological discourses. In the U.S., political conservatism was a strong predictor of viewing the state and military as the primary keepers of peace.
19.01.2026 09:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0• Both Turkish and White American participants use semantic barriers to block any alternative definitions of peace that would require social justice or a redistribution of power.
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The mark of RACIAL PRIVILEGE CONTRACTS in "peace":
• Both White racial and Turkishness contracts utilize epistemic ignorance. This is the "luxury" of not knowing or dismissing the historical/current suffering of Kurds and Armenians in Turkey, or Black and Indigenous communities in the U.S.
TITLE: Privileged representations of peace: Perpetuating systemic violence AUTHORS: Ekin Birdir, Ludwin Molina, canan coşkan ABSTRACT: Privileged representations of peace: Perpetuating systemic violenceEkin Birdir, Ludwin Molina, canan coşkanAbstractSocial psychological research typically focuses on promoting peace between groups in conflict by fostering intergroup harmony through prejudice reduction or advancing social justice through collective action. Unfortunately, these investigations rarely consider the mainstream discursive structures and epistemic engagement that normalize collective ethnic/racial violence. We addressed this gap with two mixed-method (i.e., qualitative and quantitative) studies in two contexts (Turkey and the United States), utilizing decolonial frameworks informed by liberation psychology, critical race theory and privileged ethnic/racial (Turkishness and White racial) contracts. Comparative analysis of meta-representations of peace among Turks (Study 1; N = 116) and White Americans (Study 2; N = 151) exposed the overlapping (i.e., negative peace and reliance on the nation-state order) and divergent (i.e., assimilative inclusion and neoliberal individuality) elements of privileged epistemic engagement with peace that align with Turkishness and White racial contracts, perpetuating collective violence. Furthermore, both Turks' and White Americans' ethnic/racial identity endorsement predicted higher perceptions of the state/military contribution to peace, suggesting the role of racial privilege in maintaining systemic violence. To our knowledge, this work is the first social psychological investigation of the Turkishness contract and the comparative analysis of privileged meta-representations of peace.
📢Fresh article out:
Comparing the White racial contract (Mills) in the U.S. and the Turkishness contract (Ünlü) in Turkey through mixed-methods, Ekin, Ludwin and I exposed how "peace" is used to maintain the status quo rather than achieve justice.
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Happening today! Remember to register!
12.01.2026 09:11 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0📢 Late annoucement for a very interesting session on Monday Jan 12, remember to register if you are into anthropological approaches for resistance, collective memory, and community dealing with state counterinsurgency
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[LGBTI+ prisoners in Turkey are subjected to systematic discrimination, violence, and severe conditions amounting to "de facto isolation," according to a joint information note released by LGBTI+ organizations.]
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[Israeli occupation’s raid on Birzeit University and the ban that has been done on a solidarity event for prisoners is a direct attempt to silence the prisoners’ movement amid escalating violations against prisoners inside the Israeli occupation prisons.]
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