5Harfliler is an online journal focusing on gender, politics, art and pop culture. The publication is based in Istanbul and pursues a transnational feminist agenda. For any queries, please contact us at 5harfliler@gmail.com
The world’s leading festivals which have existed for more than 70 years – Cannes, Venice, and Berlin, known as the Big Three – are still to appoint a female head. In such context, the fact that the Istanbul International Film Festival was helmed by a woman, Hülya Uçansu, from its launch in 1982 up until 2006, is particularly special.
Both of the translators of A Strange Woman still had to deal with the inherent limits of using language to understand and explain their author.
“Acting as a group always creates a multitude of positions and viewpoints. And I believe that the real challenge of our society is how to live with such heterogeneity and plurality.”
A significant part of my work stems from not daring to call myself one and looking for expressions outside of what I imagined was “official” art.
Even though I had dreamt of running away from everyone and everything from time to time, my first and only time running away from home was when I was eight years old.
Maria Prymachenko represents both folk naivety and rootedness in the tradition and the liberation from the conventions that women experienced in rural Ukraine.
Lazy Women is a platform dedicated to all women who have been accused of laziness at least at some point in their lives. It is a platform where you have zero obligations; you can do, think and express whatever you want.
What have I learned when asking women what makes them choose the contraceptive method they use.
How the fuck did we all end up in patriarchy in the first place and how do we get out of it?
