Jeg hedder Hulya, et helt almindeligt dansk navn!

Jeg hedder Hulya, et helt almindeligt dansk navn!   Det udtales lydret sådan her [Hylja]. Jeg skriver det gerne under min jobansøgning lige næstefter min underskrift. Jeg vil gerne at det bliver behageligt for arbejdsgiveren at udtale mit navn når jeg-hvis jeg kommer til jobsamtalen eller til et interview i andet øjemed.   H – […]

Cykellygte-duduk

2010, Stokie,London.

Room with window in Stamford Hill, before gentrification…

Life in progress. Change in progress. Cleaning in progress. I AM LEAVING… Gentrification in progress. I AM MOVING… Regenerate the area. I AM DALSTON… This is new. Come here now. Just passing by. I USED TO BE DALSTON. Transition in progress. Past, present, future. I AM STILL DALSTON… Degeneration in progress.

Towards a shamebringing exhibition/ Experimenting with the levels of my shame (aka my family’s shame)

Almanya’ya (The term ‘Almanci’ deciphered and with a quest for a new alternative emancipating term)

In the beginning was the word: – Almanya’ya means “to Germany”. (Background: Germany was the first and best/ (only) known European country name, when the first guest workers from Turkey went to Germany to work in the the late 1960ies) Thus it should be no surprize where the name for immigrant in Turkish derives from. […]