The period we are going through has placed disasters in our lives one after another. While violence and discrimination against women and LGBTIQ+ people teaches us to struggle, solidarity and rebuild our homes every day, everywhere, we started to feel the pain, grief and anger of the disaster we experienced with the earthquake. We started to do our best to take care of each other, to open our homes, to share our food, to save our lives, to embrace the survivors. However, we tried to stay away from the language and attitudes of everyday life that normalize inequality by putting sharing instead of donating, solidarity instead of helping into our language, with what we learned in the struggle against misogyny. The forum was a method inherited from the ancient Greek democracy, the Gezi resistance and feminist debates. Now, as we did last year, we will discuss violence against women and forms of struggle, transnational solidarity channels and how we can live together with our differences to make women’s existence, labor, body and needs visible. We will talk about how to heal each other’s wounds in the face of the terrible destruction caused by the earthquake and the principles of solidarity that protect the dignity of survivors.

Independent Feminist Researcher. She completed her undergraduate studies in Econometrics, her master’s degree in Development Economics, and her PhD in Urban Studies. She has a book titled Accumulation with Subcontractors: Informalization in Tuzla Shipyards Region and has articles on food studies, labour geography and migration. She continues to work at the intersection of gender, precarious working regimes, labour, migration and critical food studies.