Locating Berlin
SEDA GUERSES
Berlin is a space where I strongly experience feminism and anti-feminism and their interplay with race and ethnicity. It is a conjunction of places where I have to reorient my coalitions almost on an hourly basis. Here is a list of some of the locations.
The streets. Every six months, a public event occurs where my feminism is contested because of my ethnic background. Usually it follows the murder of a white man or a woman of color. I am reminded on the streets that a woman who may be identified as feminist, queer, or trans cannot be from an immigrant Muslim culture. If anything, she may be either emancipated from her culture or saved. Or they say, oh, I would have tipped an Italian or a Spaniard, but not a Turk. I do not originate, I simply am, if not made.