An examination of the grassroots activism of Legato, an Internet-mediated collegiate lesbian and gay association active at colleges and universities in Turkey from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. Using the Internet and digital media, Legato connected students on campuses across the country and introduced them to new lesbian and gay identity categories and community activism. Serkan G rkemli presents historical, cultural, visual and interview-based analyses of members’ coming-out experiences and uses of digital media. Members became sexuality activists with the help of the Internet and challenged negative representations of homosexuality through offline events such as film screenings, reading groups and conferences, amid Turkey’s emerging civil society. Bridging transnational and literacy studies, the book traces the contours of a transnational literacy of sexuality.
Details
| Title: Grassroots Literacies |
| Author: Serkan G rkemli |
| ISBN: 9781440000000 |
| Subtitle: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet in Turkey |
| Genre: Award Winner; Education; LGBT Studies/Social Sciences |
| Subject(s): |
| Publication Date: 41791 |
| Original Publication Date: |
| Publisher: State University of New York Press (SUNY Press) |
| Language: English |
| Format: Digital/E-Book |
| Pages: 246 |
| Rating: |
| Notes: Winner, 2015 Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, Book Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Setting: Turkey, mid-1990s to early 2000s. eBook edition; hardcover ISBN 9781438451831. |
| Book_ID: 118818 |