Our objection, if we have any, remains muted. There is no doubt that the weakness of our objections provides the necessary conditions for this hegemonic form of masculinity to reproduce itself.

Did I make you uncomfortable? As I have said, we have to confront not only the things that we have done, but also the sins that have filled our imagination. I have to confront the acts of every creature who destroyed women and children with his manhood.

His diaper needed to be changed so we headed to the baby changing room. But what do you know, fathers are not allowed inside because it is also used as the lactation room. There you have the reflections of the role cut out for ordinary fatherhood.

Men killed at least 19 women and one girl; raped 10 women; harassed 28 women; abused 42 girls; injured 32 women in July.

Neither confessions or narratives of heroism, nor big demonstrations of conscience or admitted disgraces are opening a way. There is a need to know that there are genuine truths, free of clamor and declarations.

A group will march with the slogan “end the gender equality” in Taksim demanding that the bills against violence against women be rescinded. 153 women’s organizations say “We will not give up neither our rights nor struggle”.

But the truth of the matter is this: I have a sort of amnesia which is common among people who have come into the world as men and believe that they have completely come to terms with it over time.

The activist and web editor of the Pembe Hayat LGBTT association Çayan Azadi has been subjected to a homophobic attack by his neighbors in Ankara. While the attackers have filed a complaint against Azadi, the police have not received Azadi’s complaint.

Or can we be stronger and free from violence now that we have expressed them? We are slowly raising our heads and looking at the sky. With the footnote that they have been lived, heard, seen and imagined...

Leaflets reading “Homosexuality is despicableness and can be turned away by convincement”; leaflets reading “homosexuality is perversion” were dropped in mail boxes in Ankara.

It is like a formula that a species has developed to rehabilitate and destroy itself, a sort of food poisoning: Manhood and violence as its “truest” son. Everything will start anew by learning how to vomit!

Transgender woman inmate Buse has paused her hunger strike on its 38th day. Her attorney Eren Keskin has stated that Buse will continue her hunger strike if she is not moved to another prison and not referred to hospital for her gender transition surgery.

A man has killed his 24-year-old transgender girlfriend Simge Sezer in Samsun. The man has claimed that he committed the murder “because his manhood was ridiculed.” In 2017, two transgender women were killed and 11 of them were subjected to attacks.

E-letter campaign has been launched for trans woman inmate Buse, who is kept in Tekirdağ Type F Closed Men’s Prison.

The impoliteness savored in a state of relief when hanging out man-to-man multiplies the artificiality of the politeness shown to women - it becomes the fuel of the violence and roughness that will explode when the necessity of politeness disappears.

Two defendants have been sentenced to lifetime imprisonment in trial of Ugandan Nantaba being murdered and her twin sister Babiry being subjected to sexual and physical violence.

Transgender inmate Buse, who has not been permitted to undergo gender transition surgery despite the related court ruling and medical report, has been on hunger strike. Her friends and attorney have made a call and said, “Give a voice to Buse.”

Men have killed 23 women, two children and three men who intervened in incidents of violence in June 2018. Three of the women killed in June were refugees from Syria.

The things that you think you have accumulated thus far can also become void very quickly. In other words, there is no such thing as “I have overcome it”. It is a reality that needs to be confronted everyday over and over again.

Here is the prohibited İstanbul LGBTİ+ Pride Parade day from photojournalist Hüseyin Aldemir’s camera…