Ladin٥: a Sephardic Glossary of Queerness
2021 saw rising hostility against queer identities in Turkey, bringing the topic to the fore in discussions about its fraught language politics. By uncovering a largely undocumented Ladino vocabulary, Altaras sheds light on historical gender politics in Sephardic Turkey, and offers a means of building toward a Ladino without lexical limits.
A Faint Call in Turkish: Let’s Talk
A younger generation of Jews in Turkey, fed up with suppression and silence, has come together to create an online news and opinion platform: Avlaremoz (let’s talk).