Category: Opinion

  • Obsessed

    We strive for a world with perfect balance. Or so it seems.  Nowadays, a lot is about well-being. Nature retreats, work-life balance, eating healthy, having a community, and so on. Balance is an achievement, you can see it in the posts of influencers, Tik-Tokers, and YouTubers. People love the idea of balance. Even trends like…

  • Writer’s Block

    Writer’s Block is something people who write experience from time to time. You don’t have to be a New York Times Bestseller Author to get it.  Last spring, while my life was changing in many ways I couldn’t make myself sit down and write a word. Before that, I was consistently writing both fiction and…

  • Love Thy Neighbour

    Every day, I am bombarded with cute couples’ content. This happens via all social media channels and pop culture. It would be possible to avoid it if I could avoid pop culture altogether but I am not gonna skip that Britney song and I will definitely be looking at that meme you’ve sent me. But…

  • Unsubscribe.

    When the American white middle class is mentioned, what I picture is a family from the 50s. Particularly because the 50s were the years the middle class boomed economically and marketing really became a thing. Essentially, the middle class is, the face of semi-modern family structure (with variations) and purchasing power. With the increasing purchasing…

  • Who Is Voting For Them?

    In Turkey, before every election, people I know go into a frenzy claiming this time the ruling party AKP will lose and the opposition will win. This reached its peak right after the Gezi Parkı demonstrations in 2013, but after each election, these people got disappointed and angry because AKP won.  When AKP first came…

  • We Tell The Story

    There is a famous quote by American poet and political activist Muriel Rukeyser, it goes like this “The universe consists of Stories, not of Atoms”. At first, you think it’s cringe, and it is an attempt by a writer trying to make her work seem more valuable than it actually is. However, when you think…

  • Darkness /

    We are lucky Dostoevsky chose to write. Perhaps we should thank his gambling habit. If it wasn’t for his debts, he might have never written such great masterpieces. Funny how struggling and stress are framed in our modern world. They are thought to be the enemy of creativity of success and productivity. Some people suggest…

  • Saint Or A Sinner?

    Over the last two years, I’ve been called a TERF, a racist, a Nazi, and a misogynist. I was also called a right-wing libertarian. Well, the latter is true. There used to be good arguments and bad arguments, and anyone who held any political identity could have those. Nowadays, the arguments and the reasoning don’t…

  • Deux Ex Corona

    The world has been boiling up for the last two years. Either with the virus itself or the implications, it caused. Personally, I was never really afraid of the virus. At first, two weeks sounded great. I was already on my semester break, and two extra weeks would be the perfect addition to it. Then…