Michelle Demishevich

Michelle Demishevich

Feminist, LGBTI ve insan hakları aktivisti, gazeteci. Mesleğe 1995’te başladı. Son dönemlerde İMC Tv ve T24’te muhabirlik yaptı. tazgazete'de yazıyor. Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi'nin...

Feminist, LGBTI ve insan hakları aktivisti, gazeteci. Mesleğe 1995’te başladı. Son dönemlerde İMC Tv ve T24’te muhabirlik yaptı. tazgazete'de yazıyor. Yeşiller ve Sol Gelecek Partisi'nin kurucu üyelerinden.

Emirhan: It’s Necessary to Have An Organized Struggle and to Record Our Experiences

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Emirhan: It’s Necessary to Have An Organized Struggle and to Record Our Experiences

Emirhan Deniz Çelebi is an English teacher and a highly equipped trans man. “I instilled fighting to my students. If I could touch the heart of even a single person, how lucky of me..”, Emirhan says.

Şahika: You Don’t Become A Trans Woman Later

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Şahika: You Don’t Become A Trans Woman Later

“There are people who think we are trans women because we are raped. What an absurd logic,” says Şahika, and adds, “It is an inborn condition, one doesn’t later become a trans woman.”

Ece Devrim: I Strongly Resisted Forced Sex Work

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Ece Devrim: I Strongly Resisted Forced Sex Work

Ece Devrim tried many jobs from dishwashing to DJing. She continued İŞ-KUR courses, became a health care worker; when she couldn’t find a job, she had to do sex work despite all her efforts against this. Now, she sells lighters in her wheelchair.

The Ones Who Choose Life, Love, and to Struggle, Just to Spite Hatred

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The Ones Who Choose Life, Love, and to Struggle, Just to Spite Hatred

The life for trans people has become more difficult especially after the 1980 coup; those who were stuck in the triangle of the police, the state and the media took their first steps to get organized.