#DİRENAYOL
During the Gezi park protests, other groups – be they religious, ecologist or football fans – finally joined the queers who had been resisting for decades. Marching side by side for a brief moment, they all shared the cause: liberation. One powerful tool to overthrow the ideology centering masculinity and heterosexism has always been humor. Linguistic strategies like irony and sarcasm, but also reclaiming slurs and prejudice with pride, spread across the whole resistance movement. #DirenAyol called everyone to resist and is an example of how different spheres also met in argo expressions. The queer focus gathers in that spirit once more.
Curated by ANTHONY HÜSEYIN & YUNUS ERSOY
With ZEHRA DOĞAN & YEŞIM DUMAN
Part of 6. Berliner Herbstsalon GEZİ – TEN YEARS AFTER. Ein Prolog im Frühling.
