Feminist/Queer Biography Workshop
as a Tool for Encounter, Dialogue and Participation
January - December 2023
ANKARA, DİYARBAKIR, VAN
ANKARA: ADA Education Cooperative
and affiliates
DİYARBAKIR: Cultural Research Center for Peace, Rosa Women's Association
VAN: Star Women's Association
The project consists of a series of activities to support the struggle for gender equality rights of feminist and LGBTI+ activists by creating areas of encounter and exchange of experiences that will strengthen cultural, social and political dialogue between movements in the centre and local. It is expected that the biography reading, telling and writing experiences which will be a collective act, will mediate the encounters, sharing of experiences, and amplification of the voices of feminist and queer experiences. These events, including workshops to be held in Diyarbakır, Van and Ankara and a podcast series of 8-episodes, aim to help creating an inter-city network to support participation and pluralism against discrimination. Thus, it is expected to contribute to the democratization of the struggle for gender equality by expanding the areas of encounter and participation between the struggle and survival experiences accumulated by the feminist and queer movements on one hand, and by closing the gap between central and local experiences on the other.
Feminist/Queer Biography Workshop project aims to contribute to the democratization of the interaction between the members of The Gender Equality Solidarity Network (Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği Dayanışma Ağı, AG-DA) through the active participation of women's and LGBTI+ rights organizations and activists in Diyarbakır and Van.
