Feminist/Queer Biography Workshop

as a Tool for Encounter, Dialogue and Participation

January - December 2023
ANKARA, DİYARBAKIR, VAN

ANKARA: ADA Education Cooperative

and affiliates

DİYARBAKIR: Cultural Research Center for Peace, Rosa Women's Association
VAN: Star Women's Association

The project consists of a series of activities to support the struggle for gender equality rights of feminist and LGBTI+ activists by creating areas of encounter and exchange of experiences that will strengthen cultural, social and political dialogue between movements in the centre and local. It is expected that the biography reading, telling and writing experiences which will be a collective act, will mediate the encounters, sharing of experiences, and amplification of the voices of feminist and queer experiences. These events, including workshops to be held in Diyarbakır, Van and Ankara and a podcast series of 8-episodes, aim to help creating an inter-city network to support participation and pluralism against discrimination. Thus, it is expected to contribute to the democratization of the struggle for gender equality by expanding the areas of encounter and participation between the struggle and survival experiences accumulated by the feminist and queer movements on one hand, and by closing the gap between central and local experiences on the other.

Feminist/Queer Biography Workshop project aims to contribute to the democratization of the interaction between the members of The Gender Equality Solidarity Network (Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği Dayanışma Ağı, AG-DA) through the active participation of women's and LGBTI+ rights organizations and activists in Diyarbakır and Van.

ADA Education Cooperative

ADA Education Cooperative is a non-governmental organization founded by the Ankara Solidarity Academy (ADA), which started its activities in January 2017 by the “peace academics” who were dismissed from their duties in universities with the Decree-Laws during the State of Emergency, and their colleagues in solidarity with them.

AĞ-DA

The Gender Equality Solidarity Network (Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği Dayanışma Ağı, AĞ-DA), which was established within the scope of the Project for the Development of Gender Equality through Solidarity Academies, carried out in cooperation with the S.S. ADA Education Cooperative and Birarada Science, Art, Education, Research and Solidarity Association and financially supported by the European Union. To date, 113 academics and 60 non-governmental organizations working in the field of women's and LGBTI+ rights have become members of AG-DA. The aim of the network is to develop channels that will make it easier for its members to share their research and field experience, and to contribute to the struggle for gender equality by increasing the advocacy and research activities to be carried out together. AĞ-DA is the first and largest network operating in Turkey to eliminate the destruction caused by the State of Emergency in the field of gender equality and to strengthen the relationship between academic knowledge on gender equality and advocacy. 

Affiliates:

Cultural Research Center for Peace (Diyarbakır)
Rosa Women's Association (Diyarbakır)
Star Women's Association (Van)

This page is published on 12 January 2023.

TAGS: ANKARA, DİYARBAKIR, VAN