“Yalnız Yürümeyeceksin”: Çevrim İçi Feminist Tanıklık ve Örtünmenin Dönüşen Öznellikleri

Abstract

1990’lı yıllar boyunca kadınların dini giyinme biçimleri (tesettür) kamusal alanda çeşitli kısıtlamalara maruz kalırken, bu durum Türkiye’de inanç ve toplumsal cinsiyet temelli ayrımcılıkların gerçekleşmesine neden olmuştur. 2000’li yıllardan günümüze dek İslam’ın kamusal görünürlüğü artmış ve 2013 yılında başörtüsü yasağının kalkmasıyla sonuçlanmıştır. Bu dönemden itibaren tesettür üzerine tartışmalar politik alandan kültürel alana taşınmıştır. Son yıllarda muhafazakar toplumsal sınıf içerisinde tesettüre eleştirel yaklaşma eğiliminde olan yeni bir jenerasyon ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu bağlamda bu makale, kadınların zorunlu örtünme deneyimlerine görünürlük sağlamayı amaçlamak için Temmuz 2018’de kurulan “Yalnız Yürümeyeceksin” dijital aktivizmini analiz etmektedir. Belirlenen 10 adet tanıklığın tematik analizi sonucunda bu makale, aktivizmin feminist tanıklık aracılığı ile, tesettürün kültürel anlamlandırmasını dönüştürdüğünü ve bu doğrultuda egemen dinsel beden politikalarına meydan okuduğunu öne sürmektedir.

Keywords

• Aktivizm
• İslam
• Feminizm
• Örtünme
• Tanıklık
• Tesettür

“You Won’t Walk Alone”: Online Feminist Testimony and Transforming Subjectivities of Veiling

Abstract

Throughout the 1990s, women’s Islamic headcover (hijab or headscarf) has been subject to restrictions in public offices, leading to faith and gender discrimination in Turkey. In the last two decades, the visibility of Islam in politics and the public sphere has increased, leading to the resolution of the “headscarf ban” in 2013. Since then, discussions about veiling have moved from the official sphere to the cultural sphere. In recent years, there has been a growing tendency among a new generation of conservative women to problematise veiling. In this regard, this article analyses the digital activism of “You Won't Walk Alone,” which was founded in July 2018 as a platform aiming to give visibility to women who experience forced veiling. Through a thematic analysis of ten different testimonies, this article argues that the activism transforms the cultural meaning of veiling and challenges hegemonic religious body politics by facilitating feminist witnessing.

Keywords

• Activism
• Hijab
• Islam
• Feminism
• Testimony
• Veiling

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