Feminist Asylum: A Journal of Critical Interventions

Something Evergreen Called Life

Rania Mamoun, Diane Samuels; Yasmine Seale, Simten Cosar — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Two poems on the experience of womanhood and exile

Persistent Solidarity

Aslı Alpar — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

A cartoon by acclaimed artist Aslı Alpar, empowered by resisting together.

Living in Companian with Other Animals as a Feminist Way of Life

Dilek Ciğerdelen, Dr. Bektaş Ata; Simten Coşar — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Bektaş Ata and Coşar, members of the Feminist Asylum Editorial Collective, talk with Dilek Ciğerdelen about animal rights, veganism, feminism, and activism.

Mnemotechnics and Other Psychogeographies of Flying

Sofia Dona; Simten Coşar — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

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.

To the “343 sluts”, with my warmest regards

Didem Yıldırım — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

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.

Feminist Praxis in Exile

Dr. Gülden Özcan, Simten Cosar — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

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

Gender Bias in AI

Burcu Çırtlık; Simten Cosar — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

This work analyzes the gendered bias inherent in burgeoning Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Drawing from feminist scholarship on algorithmic bias, it argues that AI development reflects and amplifies existing patriarchal structures. The analysis highlights how AI applications, from chatbots reinforcing gendered stereotypes to art generators perpetuating a white male gaze, threaten to exacerbate social inequities

From the editors

Feminist Asylum Editorial Collective — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Editorial notes for Vol. 2, #3

Academy in Exile

Dr. Gülden Özcan; Simten Coşar — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Autoethnographic visual narrative on academy in exile.