On one of the last warm summer nights of this year, the conversation turned to Harry Potter and the four houses of Hogwarts. Quickly I was assigned Ravenclaw. I, who had read all the books in this series as a teenager, but had also suppressed…
The protests in Iran which started after the killing of Mahsa Amini has spread to universities as well. Sharif University of Technology in Tehran is one of the zones where the protests are widespread, and where they met with police violence. The news stated that…
Four years ago, my old cell phone almost ended up in a drawer, but I realized that this device would have a better use than being stored in a box. Out of a supposed digital romanticism, I decided to give it to my grandma. The…
This one is going to be a personal one. Hi. This is Bilge. Some of you may know me, some of you don’t. And probably, none of you really care who I am. Regardless, let me introduce myself. I was born in 1994 which makes…
This text is the English translation of the article “HPV: Katil Aşk Değil Bizi 9 Yaşında Aşılamayanlar“, by Cem Kılınç, published on areteportal on 21 July 2022. The text has been translated into English by Tayfun Tatar. HPV: Human Papilloma Virus. A public health issue…
I was taking a class last year about environmental and urban politics at ITU. There was an article I was supposed to read: “Socio-spatial legibility, discipline, and gentrification through favela upgrading in Rio de Janeiro”[1]. While reading I realized that the story of the neoliberal…
