https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/issue/feed 2025-07-18T09:50:46-04:00 Editor feminist.asylum@journals.pitt.edu Open Journal Systems <p>Feminist Asylum: A Journal of Critical Interventions</p> <p> </p> <p>Feminist Asylum is published bi-annually in Spring (April 1) and Fall (October 1)</p> <p>Feminist Asylum is a bilingual (English - Turkish) scholarly journal, which aims at contributing to feminist, anti-capitalist, anti-racist knowledge production processes. We will offer grounds for intersectional feminist narrations. We will be covering a wide range of topics that invite feminist critical look on structures of exploitation, domination, and discrimination. </p> <p>Feminist Asylum integrates different <em>genres</em> extending from academic analysis to literary works on gendered relations, institutions, artefacts - texts in general. Approaching the material, institutional, discursive and the relational dimensions as sites of texts is one of the distinctive features of the feminist knowledge that we aim to produce, exchange and transform in the journal through bilingual possibilities. Feminist knowledge might help us to expose and challenge the situated boundaries of patriarchal academic texts. Feminist inquiries in the knowledge of this world invites the interrogation of the strict separation between different forms of being as in aesthetic, scientific, moralistic. In other words, we aim at interdisciplinary and cross-cutting forms of knowledge production that unfold through the transitivity among different claims to knowledge.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/161 2025-07-09T10:26:47-04:00 Feminist Asylum Editorial Collective feminist.asylum@journals.pitt.edu

<p>Editorial notes for the fourth issue.</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Feminist Asylum Editorial Collective https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/155 2025-07-05T18:31:24-04:00 Simten Cosar simcosar@gmail.com

<p>This article speaks to three distinct—but related—sites of encounter with the political: The first site concerns the field research with feminist academics that has spanned to more than four years, which I conducted in different countries. It is still in the making. The second site relates to contemporary political theory, and the lack of attention to theorizing politics in crisis times and/or regime transitions, displayed either by the rush to model the existing government here-and-now or by sheer silence, putting at risk the capacity to "remember and communicate the political experience" (Wiessberg, 1997, p. 21). The third site is about bringing in micro- politics of everyday life into political theory. In this manuscript, I try to point at a means of doing so—through everyday conversation. I consider these sites as signifying the loss of meaning in the political (both in terms of political practices and reading these practices) in times of crisis, accompanying the increase in the frequency and degree of violence in institutional politics, and in everyday social interactions.² Here, I try to explore the possibilities for a politically engaged theorizing that prioritizes (historical) meaning over (speedy and assembly-line) model- making in explaining the political here-and-now. In so doing, I refer to bringing in everyday politics as storied in the accounts of citizens-as-actors. I argue that political theory offers the medium for turning the stories of political actors into narrations for shedding light on the structure that ties seemingly incidental, and thus divided moments in transition. My argument is that in contemporary versions of crisis—the crisis of neoliberal capitalism—everyday life offers one a space to connect her/his concerns with the politics of theorizing and the theoretical-as-embedded in the political experience.</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Simten Cosar https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/141 2025-06-17T19:37:24-04:00 Işıl Bayraktar isilbayraktr@gmail.com

<p>In this article, I focus on a woman’s experience with migration from Turkey to Japan for Ph.D. studies and the journey she continues after the breast cancer diagnosis upon return to Turkey. I try to narrate both experiences with a view to collective feminist story-telling, not only as a form of writing but also as a means for healing.</p>

2025-07-09T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Işıl Bayraktar https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/157 2025-07-06T21:08:37-04:00 Simten Cosar simcosar@gmail.com Leyla Bektaş Ata leylabektas@gmail.com

<p>In this article, we offer an intergenerational discussion on the <em>pros and cons</em> of autoethnography with a view to the dynamics of neoliberal universities.</p>

2017-02-01T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Simten Cosar; Leyla Bektaş Ata https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/151 2025-06-22T20:19:21-04:00 Rania Mamoun ranniaali@hotmail.com Diane Samuels dianesamuels@gmail.com Yasmine Seale ranniaali@hotmail.com Şafak Altan safakaltan@gmail.com

<p>Poem by Rania Mamoun on women and exile.</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Rania Mamoun, Diane Samuels; Yasmine Seale, Şafak Altan https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/145 2025-06-19T06:39:04-04:00 Hilal Barbay hiabarbay@gmail.com

<p>Poem by Hilal Barbay</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Hilal Barbay https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/160 2025-07-07T00:11:16-04:00 Nafia Akdeniz nafia.akdeniz@gmail.com

<p>Poem by Nafia Akdeniz.</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Nafia Akdeniz https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/159 2025-07-06T22:54:48-04:00 Aslı Alpar alparcim@gmail.com

<p class="p2">Alpar’s art for solidarity and peace.</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Simten Cosar https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/156 2025-07-06T20:43:00-04:00 Zeki Bayhan feminist.asylum@journals.pitt.edu

<p>Zeki Bayhan's letter from prison.</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Zeki Bayhan https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/147 2025-06-22T05:21:04-04:00 Işıl Eğrikavuk isilegri@gmail.com

<p>This article presents <em>the other garden</em>, a practice-based, research-led artistic initiative I launched together with my students at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in 2021 to create an interdisciplinary, inclusive, and ecological learning space. Motivated by personal experiences of exclusion within institutional frameworks, the project reclaims visibility for marginalized voices—human and non-human alike—through artistic and collaborative practices. It explores how artistic research can intersect with ecology, care, and diversity to rethink academic environments. The garden acts as both metaphor and method, integrating theory and practice, and positioning alternative pedagogies at the heart of social and environmental change.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Işıl Eğrikavuk; Nihan Kuzu, Şafak Altan https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/154 2025-07-05T17:35:35-04:00 Şafak Altan safakaltan@gmail.com

<p class="p2">Letter from outside to the inside.</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Şafak Altan https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/143 2025-06-18T21:33:53-04:00 Nalan Soyarık Şentürk nsoyarik@gmail.com

<p>Nalân’s handicraft to heal.</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Nalan Soyarık Şentürk https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/158 2025-07-06T22:11:09-04:00 Dilek Ciğerdelen dilekcigerdelen2000@gmail.com

<p>A commentary on the intersectionality between feminism and veganism.</p>

2025-07-18T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Dilek Ciğerdelen