Category: Emel Peksöz
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Book Review: The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove
Read more: Book Review: The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGroveDating apps promise abundance: endless profiles and endless chances to begin again. Yet beneath their image of choice and connection lies a more unsettling reality, particularly for women, whose pursuit of intimacy is often entangled with misogyny. Jennifer LoveGrove’s The Tinder Sonnets is a poetry collection that captures this tension. It explores the reality of…
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The Spell of Silences, or Acknowledgements for a Bachelor’s Thesis
Read more: The Spell of Silences, or Acknowledgements for a Bachelor’s ThesisIt is half an hour before midnight, and I am staring at the screen of my corroding laptop, awaiting my cue to click the crimson button and end the inferno. Somehow, three years of studying, over two decades of living, have coalesced into a rectangle. My hands tremble above the keyboard, keeping time with the…
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Writers Write: Rethinking and Overcoming Writer’s Block
Read more: Writers Write: Rethinking and Overcoming Writer’s Block“I find writing gets harder as time goes on. I’m speaking of the working process, which demands a certain amount of energy and courage (though I dislike using the word), and a certain amount of recklessness.”— James Baldwin Writing comprises challenges that demand perseverance. Ordinarily, I find its difficulties manageable, but recently, I have been…
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Girls Just Want to Have Freedom
Read more: Girls Just Want to Have Freedom“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable femininity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers,…
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Love is a Bitch! and Other Lessons in Love
Read more: Love is a Bitch! and Other Lessons in LoveAt the start of September, I went to my first Monday lecture of the new academic year. I was met with the bold declaration that love is, in fact, a bitch. Our lecturer, the terrific Dutch scholar Margriet van Heesch, did not sugarcoat her words. She might have even saltcoated them. Her message was clear:…
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