https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci <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> University of Pittsburgh, University Library System en-US Feminist Asylum: A Journal of Critical Interventions 2834-4707 https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/131 <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two poems on the experience of womanhood and exile</span></p> Rania Mamoun Diane Samuels Yasmine Seale Simten Cosar Copyright (c) 2024 Rania Mamoun, Diane Samuels; Yasmine Seale, Simten Cosar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-06-17 2024-06-17 2 10.5195/faci.2024.131 https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/129 <p>A cartoon by acclaimed artist Aslı Alpar, empowered by resisting together.</p> Aslı Alpar Copyright (c) 2024 Aslı Alpar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-06-17 2024-06-17 2 10.5195/faci.2024.129 https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/130 <p class="p1">&nbsp;</p> <p class="p2">Bektaş Ata and Coşar, members of the <em>Feminist Asylum </em>Editorial Collective, talk with Dilek Ciğerdelen about animal rights, veganism, feminism, and activism.</p> <p class="p2">&nbsp;</p> Dilek Cigerdelen Leyla Bektaş Ata Simten Cosar Copyright (c) 2024 Dr. Bektaş Ata; Simten Coşar; Dilek Ciğerdelen https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-06-17 2024-06-17 2 10.5195/faci.2024.130 https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/125 <p class="p1">&nbsp;</p> <p class="p2">This meditation on how the spaces of cities can carry and activate cultural and political memories was inspired by the memory of Zak Kostopoulos, a queer activist who was murdered in Athens in 2018.</p> Sofia Dona Simten Coşar Copyright (c) 2024 Sofia Dona https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-06-17 2024-06-17 2 10.5195/faci.2024.125 https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/126 <p class="p1">&nbsp;</p> <p class="p2">Inspired by a powerful 1971 manifesto by French women, demanding abortion rights, the writer emphasizes a woman's right to bodily autonomy and advocates abortion rights that are an inspiration for today's struggles.</p> Didem Yıldırım Copyright (c) 2024 Didem Yıldırım https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-06-17 2024-06-17 2 10.5195/faci.2024.126 https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/120 <p class="p2">This work is a collaborative attempt to historicize our experience as feminist academics in neoliberal settings across different countries (Turkey, Canada, the United States) in the last two decades. We narrate how we learned to act as women academics in certain male and nationalist and/or racialized settings in neoliberal moment(s). We refrain from victimhood accounts as well as the charm of heroic feminist stances. We tell our stories in terms of our relations to the socio-economic contexts that host neoliberal universities, to our presence on neoliberal campuses, to the academic circles that we happen to join, and from which we are excluded</p> Gülden Özcan Simten Cosar Copyright (c) 2024 Dr. Gülden Özcan; Simten Cosar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-06-17 2024-06-17 2 10.5195/faci.2024.120 https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/124 <p class="p1">This work analyzes the gendered bias inherent in burgeoning Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Drawing from feminist&nbsp;scholarship on algorithmic bias, it argues that AI development reflects and amplifies existing patriarchal structures. The analysis&nbsp;highlights how AI applications, from chatbots reinforcing gendered stereotypes to art generators perpetuating a white male gaze,&nbsp;threaten to exacerbate social inequities</p> Burcu Çırtlık Simten Cosar Copyright (c) 2024 Burcu Çırtlık; Simten Cosar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-06-17 2024-06-17 2 10.5195/faci.2024.124 https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/116 <p>Editorial notes for Vol. 2, #3</p> Feminist Asylum Editorial Collective Copyright (c) 2024 Simten Cosar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-06-17 2024-06-17 2 10.5195/faci.2024.116 https://feministasylum.pitt.edu/faci/article/view/119 <p>Autoethnographic visual narrative on academy in exile.</p> Gülden Özcan Simten Coşar Copyright (c) 2024 Simten Cosar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2024-06-17 2024-06-17 2 10.5195/faci.2024.119