Şu sokak röportajı videolarından birisini izliyorum. Yine, zannediyorum altmışlarında bir bey, kendisiyle röportaj yapılan bir gencin haklı sitemlerle ve isabetli analizlerle dolu konuşmasını bölüp “çıkar telefonunu”na yakın bir müdahaleyle “sen ayfon (iphone) çocuğusun” deyiverdi. Bu sokak röportajlarına müdahale eden amca (gençler dayı diyor) tipolojisini biz kadınlar aslında gayet iyi tanıyoruz…

İnsanlığın Aşağısındaki Erkeklik Kadın cinayetleri Türkiye’de akıl almaz bir boyuta ulaştı. Dr. Aylin Sözer’in haberini, hepimiz hâlâ yüreğimiz elimizde takip ediyoruz. Dr. Sözer’i okurken, beraberinde evladı tarafından öldürülen Vesile Sönmez’i, eşi tarafından katledilen Selda Taş’ı da okuduk. Dr. Sözer’i okurken, Türkiye’de akademisyen olmanın zorluklarını hatırladık. O 15–20 yıllık çetrefilli eğitimi…

The new Netflix series Dahmer is a great hit for turning the story of a serial killer into a strong social critique of social injustices. …

Sensory processing takes time for me. It takes time before I realise that I am cold, hot, or in pain.. or that something is pinching me or even hurting me... And I have come to realise that what I experience is in fact a condition with a name. I have…

We do not speak about the privileges in academia as efficiently as we should have. I was having a conversation with a colleague from the Global South, who also comes from a working-class background. We reflected on how we find ourselves in conversations on privilege with other scholars from the…

We always know it: there are really nasty seniors in academia. And the cost of such individuals is usually the dreams of (dozens of) juniors. I never understand senior academics’ horrible treatments of their PhD students and junior academics. I think there is no logic behind it. It is not…

One very important thing I have learned in my long journey of job applications is that, if you are not from the country you are applying for the job, you are at a disadvantage (not all foreigners are created equally though; but still). You need to crack all the codes…

When I was applying to the ERC fund, I was approaching the end of my research fellowship. Research fellowships are temporary research jobs, often underpaid, yet are designed to provide you with the space to advance your academic prospects. When these fellowships were first designed, the academic world was much…

Today, I am starting to share my notes from my earlier years, which included some self-help strategies for growth as a precarious academic (back then). Precarity is a known phenomenon in academia, yet there is not enough advice for the precariat. …