Voice of LGBTIQ+ in Literature

September 2023 - June 2024
ONLINE

Voice of LGBTIQ+ in Literature is an online story writing workshop project that published a book consisting of the stories written by the participants and its target participant group is LGBTIQ+ individuals who live far from big cities, which are the main arteries of cultural production, and are interested in writing and did not have the opportunity to have their works published before. The workshop supported by the subject experts and the authors of the current examples to be analysed. The historical change that the selected examples had gone through will be analysed as well throughout the workshop.

Mertcan Karakuş

He has graduated from METU, Department of Industrial Design. He worked as a designer and project manager in two companies. He is involved in the LGBTIQ+ movement since the time he was a student. He actively took part in communities such as METU LeGaTo, Kaos GL, Lambda Istanbul. He has written many critical reviews, held interviews and translated many texts, which have been published on websites such as Velvele.net, Argonotlar.com, FakFukFonTV about representation of LGBTIQ+ in literature, visual arts and popular culture. Using the alias Zakkum Kök, he worked on both voluntary and professional bases in various LGBTIQ+ entertainment venues as a drag performance artist. He has written a novel called Yüzen Küçük Şeyler (Little Floating Things), in which he describes the relationship of LGBTIQ+ people living in Turkey with memory, combining it with his own experience.

This page is published on 7 December 2023.