Zeynep K. Korkman

Zeynep K. Korkman, author of Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey, discusses how Turkey's fortunetelling cafés provide shelter from societal pressures. She explores the use of divination as a tool for feminist politics, the significance of feeling labor for gender and sexual minorities, and the interplay of gender, labor, affect, and politics in postsecular Turkey.

Zeynep K. Korkman, examining Turkey's fortunetelling cafés and experiences of secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals. Topics include divination as affective labor, navigating gendered vulnerability, and transnational feminist solidarity.