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erdemavsar.bsky.social
Erdem Avşar
@erdemavsar.bsky.social
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doctor of usefully useless things | utopias and crises, queer performance and politics, sociology of culture and media

teaches at @uofgsociology.bsky.social
affiliate artist & researcher @uofgunescorila.bsky.social
writer, translator
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looking forward to this conversation next week with wonderful friends + colleagues for the Voices of Change roundtable at #ATHE2025. we’ll read from new work + talk all things playwriting, identity, and cultural resistance. come join us! july 30, 1:30-3PM MET
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A screenshot with details of a roundtable conversation. Playwrights and Practitioners of MENA/SWANA in Conversation: Voices of Change July 30, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM MET Concurrent Session Practice About the Session This panel invites prominent MENA/SWANA playwrights and actors to share insights into their creative processes, experiences in American and global theatre, and the challenges they face. These conversations will illuminate the intersection of culture, identity, and storytelling in their work while addressing broader themes of representation and inclusion. The panel examines how playwrights use their craft to amplify marginalized voices, explores how interdisciplinary approaches can foster creative forms in playwriting, and aims to highlight the transformative potential of theatre in addressing contemporary social and political issues. Session Coordinator Q-mars Haeri Presenter Burcu Seyben, Deniz Basar, Erdem Avsar, Fatma Onat Moderator Aycan Akcamete
July 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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You and me both, Libcat. You and me both.
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May 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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love how Toscano talks about plurality/pluralism:
A quote from Alberto Toscano: 'the contemporary ecology of the authoritarian right - including in the multiplicity of its vectors of communication - can be seen to replicate fascism's "pluralism" in a less centralised form, allowing tactical and strategic convergences between authoritarian imaginaries that might seem incompatible "on paper."'
May 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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sunday trip to summerlee.

'It is to be hoped that the decisive victory now gained – for the Summerlee Company have now agreed to force all employees to join the union. Cling together, lads.'

www.marxists.org/archive/macl...
January 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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if there is one radically transformative space in academia, it’s the classroom. it’s also the most moving one. today, a lovely student with a new Polaroid camera took two photos—one, to my surprise, was for me. and they left this ‘happy’ note on the back. love how it reads like a Buddy Holly song.
A Polaroid photo with a handwritten note on the back: ‘Happy everyday - To my lovely teacher. Hope have every nice day [sic].’
November 25, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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It's Tenementals Friday! @tenementals.bsky.social Can't wait to grab my copy @lnfg.bsky.social

And if you have any doubts about how much of a fan I am - I even have the badge, thanks very much.

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The Tenementals cover for the first volume of their Glasgow: A History set
November 22, 2024 at 12:06 PM