After the Rain: A Queer Rupturing of Ideology

Can queerness be free from being an identity? What else could it be? Could I un-identify myself from queerness, not in some kind of un-queering, but to free my queerness from its pre-determination as an identity, to be able to determine myself in a more amorphous sense? Could that be queering in the absolute hardest?

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NostalgiaJing Yi Teo
Excerpt - Greetings Aliens Pt I

Many of the stories I read were literally about the authors describing their dream of a utopian future society. There are so many such Turkish sci-fi stories in the first half of the twentieth century that “Utopian Dream” can be classified as an entire subgenre.

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Sci-fiEfe Levent
This is not our Country, It’s the town of those who want to kill us: Contemporary Turkish Social-Realist Cinema as Folk Horror

For the urban/modern/civilised gaze, the source of rising fascism and racism are the inferior animalistic masses who must be repressed. It serves no purpose besides codifying townsfolk who are defined through their proximity to nature as lower life forms enslaved by their savage instincts and civilization as its’ superior antithesis.

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Culture, ArtPınar Üzeltüzenci