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Author: Selin Genc

Selin Genc is a writer and artist based in Utrecht (NL) and Istanbul (TR). Her written and visual work has been featured on Lucy Writers Platform, the Gallyry, the Debutante, the Rattlecap, Mad'in Europe, Eudaimonia and rApport. Her essay ‘Creative Cartographies’ was featured as a podcast episode on Technecast. Selin's ongoing academic pursuits are in the fields of art history, philosophy and social anthropology. Alongside working on a book-length project, she is involved in a collaborative writing project with the Ruppin Agency and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge – ‘What The Water Gave Us’, a hardcopy anthology focusing on the migrant experience.

Body Ecstatic: a poem by Selin Genc

14th June 2022  Selin Genc

In this vivid, mystical poem, Selin Genc dives into the flowing relationships between body, space and spirit, abundance and lack, and asks how life can be lived between the extremes of excess and nothing at all.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: My Body's Bodies Editorial, mystical poetry, Poetry

Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common by Ewa Majewska – envisioning a new feminist resistance

17th October 202117th October 2021  Selin Genc

In this striking essay, Selin Genc reviews Ewa Majewska’s ‘Feminist Antifascism’, and considers Majewska’s inspirational arguments for a “flexible, inclusive and inventive” feminism in the context of recent events in Turkey.

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Posted in Arts, Books, PoliticsTagged: counterpublics, Ewa Majewska, Feminism, Feminist Antifascism, Istanbul Convention, LGBTQ+, Turkey, Verso Books, Women's Rights

Three Exorbitant Acts: Eurovision 2008-2013 by Selin Genc

12th August 2021  Selin Genc

Selin Genc takes us on a return trip, economy class, to the Eurovision of the early 00s, where austerity was answered with excessive performances – and a singing turkey!

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Posted in Arts, Film and Media, MusicTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Camp, Dario Agento, Dustin the Turkey, Eurovision, Eurovision Song Contest, Florin Cezar, Rodolfo Chikilicuatre, Selin Genc, suspiria

Two Latin American detective novels: turning the genre inside out

26th May 202131st May 2021  Selin Genc

Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez, and Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro: two new translated books from Charco Press that are quirky, poignant, and very relevant for our times.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, Charco Press, Christina Macsweeney, Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle, Karla Suárez, Latin American literature

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette – a chilling account of state violence and its erasure

13th October 2020  Selin Genc

Misleading in size and the simplicity of its prose, Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is brutal in its exploration of political violence towards women and the normalisation and erasure of this when it comes to national memorialisation, writes Selin Genc.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Adana Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette, Fitzcarraldo, Fitzcarraldo Editions, imperialism, Life in Languages, Minor Detail, Palestine, Selin Genc, Translation, Turkey

Tales and Tongues by Selin Genc

6th August 20206th August 2020  Selin Genc

Comfortable in her mother tongue, Turkish, Selin Genc wasn’t prepared for how English would creep into her dreams, thoughts and conversations when moving to Scotland. Here, she talks navigating two languages, two worlds and enjoying the magical mixing of both.

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Posted in Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Elodie Rose Barnes, English, Folk Tales, Language, Life in Languages, Selin Genc, Turkey, Turkish

Postcards in Isolation 13: Rodin, Bust of Camille Claudel, 1884

8th July 20201st August 2020  Selin Genc

Reflecting on the life of Camille Claudel through Rodin’s 1884 bronze bust of the artist, Selin Genc considers her own experience of isolation and celebrates her autonomy even in the midst of lockdown.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Camille Claudel, Camille Claudel 1915, Charlotte Brontë, Covid-19, Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys, John Cage, Juliette Binoche, Lockdown Living, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Rodin, sculpture, Wide Sargasso Sea
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