... not simply disappear or are subsumed by transgender , but are further complicated by it and continue to exist alongside it. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 transgender history humanitarianism UNHCR Syrian queer and gender-variant refugees Syria Turkey What was there before...

... in Turkey and proposes that a collective focus on the realm of death would bring feminist cis women and trans people together around a shared gender experience. In Turkey, the annual number of cis and trans women who are killed by cis men has been gradually increasing. This situation makes the availability...

... in Turkish by Meydan News , a monthly anarchist print newspaper in Turkey. Meydan News : Could you please introduce yourself? Esra: My name is Esra, and I've been living as a travesti for twenty-one years. I live for just one hope: to get my pink identity card. But I can't get it because...

... opens himself up to new social relations. Similarly, in what is possibly one of the most moving confessions in the play, Üzüm declares her persisting love for Cato (despite his betrayal) by sharing a story about her grandmother, who had arrived in West Germany in the 1960s as a labor migrant from Turkey...

... door despite efforts to contain them elsewhere. For example, the European Union negotiated trade deals with Turkey and Libya to close the southeastern border of Europe. The aim of the deal, from the European side, is to prevent migrants and refugees from ever arriving. So, they end up staying...

... in Turkey .” TSQ 7 , no. 1 : 37 – 55 . Snorton C. Riley , and Haritaworn Jin . 2013 . “ Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife .” In The Transgender Studies Reader 2 , edited by Stryker Susan and Aizura Aren...

.... Personal histories of gender regulation, gender nonconformity, and gender transition may develop in relation to the national and transnational star trajectories of televisual icons like Turkey's Bülent Ersoy and Kuwait's Shjoon Alhajri or through the circulation and aesthetics of series like The Jack...

.... “Transgender as a Humanitarian Category: The Case of Syrian Queer and Gender-Variant Refugees in Turkey,” by Fadi Saleh, offers a timely contribution to international debates about immigration, asylum, and the refugee crisis. It investigates the material consequences of the categories “transgender...

... is performed through “wringing the turkey's neck,” as the physical touch consummates the mediated relationship between a digital therapist, hypnotist, or dominatrix and the masturbating viewer. Examples like Videos 1 and 2, discussed above, produce a haptic intimacy whereby viewers can be overwhelmed...

... and reviewers for their constructive feedback. References Açiksöz Salih Can . 2012 . “ Sacrificial Limbs of Sovereignty: Disabled Veterans, Masculinity, and Nationalist Politics in Turkey .” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26 , no. 1 : 4 – 25 . Ahn Patty Jeehyun . 2009 . “ Harisu...

... the past few decades in the United States; in “Translation,” David Gramling and Emrah Karakuş provide a sampling of activist statements in “Trans Voices from Turkey,” and in the “Ephemera” section, we reproduce the PolySensorium fortune-teller, an “action art object” collectively created by several trans...

... : 248). Therefore, it is the psychological element of the sexed body that is deemed to deviate from the law's conception of gender. In 1967, Ayatollah Khomeini—who was exiled to Turkey by the Pahlavi regime—issued a fatwa in Arabic that claimed that sex-change surgery is not prohibited under...

... consider themselves transfeminist in the ways just described and that chronicle self-styled transfeminist practices and theories in the United States, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, France, Russia, and Turkey. By choosing the forward slash (/) to mark a break between the two halves of the neologistic...

... —the ecstatic devotional dance often analogized to the Mevlevi dervishes of Konya in Turkey, but the dhamaal entails wilder corporealities. The devotees explain that dhamaal is a prayer led by he who plays the dhol , that is, the dholi or imam, who offers a path ( tar ) that leads the devotee to God. One...

... the West Side of Manhattan. With one last carload of frozen turkeys in 1980, the High Line became a relic. After 1980, the High Line was left untended and grew a fantastic and accidental landscape, in part from seeds that had fallen from trains over the preceding decades. In Walking the High Line...

..., Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the United States, and Venezuela. 5. Yova appeared in a recruitment advertisement for Convergys, an outsourcing company, and figured prominently in a recent article examining how transgender Filipinas have been folded into the global...

... on the open secret of “wringing the turkey's neck,” an act of presurgical masturbation subculturally discussed among trans women ( 1992 : 159), and Eliza Steinbock's discussion of trans docu-porn ( 2019 : 61–106). 1. Califia, according to Wikipedia, started hormone-replacement therapy in 1999...

... the fundamental fantasy, stressing that its outcome is not always positive and could even be destructive. Similarly, “The Sexual Is Political” discusses a case from 1926 Turkey—the execution of the “very masculine-looking” Şalcı Bacı for wearing a fedora in defiance of the Hat Law ( Žižek 2016c ). Asserting...

... is a learned skill.” Not only this, Lili also faints at the sight of blood (Stone 1987 ). In these accounts, their essential female selves are exclusively heterosexual, just as their male selves are, and “nobody ever mentions ‘wringing the turkey's neck,’” the final act of preoperative penile masturbation...