Creating a space for trans self‐narrative in 1930s Turkey: Kenan Çinili's memoir.
The memoir of Kenan Çinili, a transgender person who was widely covered by newspapers in Turkey in the second half of the 1930s, sheds light on the historically and geographically unique workings of cisheteronormativity. Through a self‐reflexive reading of the memoir and newspaper accounts from this...
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