OTHER PROJECTS
Sibel’s Journey is a educational video game for teenagers and schools, to playfully explore topics around sexuality, gender, bodies, and boundaries. We developped it with our collective Food for Thought Media. It is the first Serious & Educational Online Game of its kind in Germany and available in German, English and Turkish.
📰 IN THE PRESS
Safe in our world
05.01.2024
Heise
04.05.2023
Games Mag
20.04.2023
Good Neighbors
10.05.2021
Siegessäule
27.04.2021
Good News for You
4Players
28.04.2021
Gayming Mag
10.12.2020
Integration into the classroom
You can book workshops with us on how to bring these topics and the game into your school, classroom or youth groups. We teach educators how to facilitate their own workshops or lessons and integrate our game into their classes, pedagogic training and workshops:
📰 ACADEMIC ARTICLE
Interactive and Intersectional: Sex Education for Young People with the Digital Game “Sibel’s Journey”
Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 2024; 37, p. 217-223
by Louka Maju, Goetzke and Öykü inal
Abstract
Serious games hold great untapped potential for sexuality and gender education for young people. The interactive, real-world format promises lasting learning that can promote critical thinking and bring about changes in attitudes and behavior. The 90-minute digital game “Sibel’s Journey”, a narrative adventure game, is an educational tool that harnesses this potential. It aims to support young people in engaging with these topics independently in the sense of comprehensive sexuality and gender education. After contextualizing serious games as digital tools in sex and gender education, this practice-oriented article presents the features and content of “Sibel’s Journey”. It provides information on the development of the game, the underlying concept of sex education, and the focus on diversity and the intersection of different forms of discrimination.
︎2020 - 2021︎
#GenderStruggles was a project bringing together researchers and activists from Turkey, Sweden, and Germany to discuss exchange strategies of resistance and build resilience. The Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Sweden and Sabanci University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) in Turkey hosted the project. Humboldt University Center for Comparative Research on Democracy in Germany adjoined the project in collaboration with SU Gender.
Based on our workshops, Selin Çağatay, Zeynep Göker, Olga Hünler & Aslı Polatdemir wrote a paper about how we move beyond the dichotomy of resilience and resistance in queer & feminist activism, emotional aspects of their relationship, and how both are shaped by class and geopolitical differences:
Published 2023 in Gender, Place & Culture
“Collective resilience and resistance in hybrid times: gender struggles in Germany, Turkey and Sweden”
#GenderStruggles
Building Community Resilience via Creativity and Digital Media#GenderStruggles was a project bringing together researchers and activists from Turkey, Sweden, and Germany to discuss exchange strategies of resistance and build resilience. The Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Sweden and Sabanci University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) in Turkey hosted the project. Humboldt University Center for Comparative Research on Democracy in Germany adjoined the project in collaboration with SU Gender.
Based on our workshops, Selin Çağatay, Zeynep Göker, Olga Hünler & Aslı Polatdemir wrote a paper about how we move beyond the dichotomy of resilience and resistance in queer & feminist activism, emotional aspects of their relationship, and how both are shaped by class and geopolitical differences:
Published 2023 in Gender, Place & Culture
“Collective resilience and resistance in hybrid times: gender struggles in Germany, Turkey and Sweden”
📰 IN THE PRESS
Taz
15.02.2015
INTERVIEVV
19.11.2014
Auf ein Bier mit
15.10.2014
Vocer
19.11.2014
Taz
23.10.2014
Voll auf die Presse
06.12.2013
Berliner Zeitung
14.08.2013
Spiegel
07.12.2012
Taz
04.12.2012
Joined forces with
Transform Magazin
Emerge Mag
Pop-Kultur Berlin
Fuchsbau Festival
︎2010 - 2022︎
TONIC Magazin
TONIC Magazin was an online and print project experimenting with new and classic forms of journalism. As a non-profit association we offered workshops for young journalists, published print magazines, journalistic posters, and run an online magazine. We archived everything under tonic-magazin.de, and you can still order most of the print products.
Last Publication in 2022 ︎︎︎
in German
in German
A feminist poster + zine with a non-fiction story about the grey areas of consent, translated from French by Elisa Crabeil and myself, illustrated by Loan Capitaine. Tragically funny and painfully infuriating. To read and hang on the wall. Get yours for 3€ in the TONIC magazine shop. Listen to the orgiginal story in french by Norah Benarrosh-Orsoni.