What connects the UK's 2025 Equality Act ruling, US anti-trans legislation & pronatalist policies in Turkey and Russia? "Cis Hell" — our new concept for transnational regimes of bodily control. Out today in Journal of Gender Studies w/ @mustafaozbilgin doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2026.2647417

Such an exciting product of my fieldwork in the Balkans. Although Turkish political narratives circulate widely in the Balkans, focusing on Ankara’s projection risks flattening the complex imaginative work undertaken by local Muslims themselves. @takhayyul.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu

I just signed off 2 acceptance letters for Contemporary Islam. Look out for really exciting papers on agnosticism amongst Muslims and on Zakat and Adaptive Orthopraxy. Both very rich with empirical data and theoretical analysis, expanding the debates on Canon & Islam
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Thank you to the editors, @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social (our PI) and Merve Kayıkçı (affiliate fellow of the Project), and all of the authors (incl. @erolsaglam.bsky.social) who contributed to this issue and made for such insightful conversation!

The first paper of the Takhayyul Working Paper Series is out!! We're honoured to present Dr Nazan Üstündağ's "Imagining Freedom in the Kurdish Women Freedom’s Movement" 📑

discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

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@ucldiscovery.bsky.social
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The Hidden Trauma: Bureaucratic Battles’ Impact on the “Academic Outsiders” In UK academia’s current crisis of mass redundancies and institutional upheaval, academics from disadvantaged backgrounds experience…

I just wrote this 'spur of the moment.'
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-hidden-t...

Cok tesekkur ederim (tebrigin hayrani oldugum roman yazarindan gelmesi <3)

Güzel olmuş. Elinize sağlık!

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER!!!

Fahri the Magic Boy &quot;Fahri the Magic Boy&quot; presents a narrative exploration of dyspraxia through the lived experience of its protagonist, offering an alternative discourse to traditional deficit-focused represen...

and to everyone who supports them on their journey. And, I don’t care if it’s not academic. I try to follow my heart when developing my academic projects anyway.
Here's the full book
www.academia.edu/130425349/Fa...
2/2

I am incredibly proud to share this deeply personal project with you — a story that has been growing in my heart for quite some time. “Fahri the Magic Boy” is my love letter to every child who experiences the world a little differently, +1/2

The Workplace Scapegoat: When Different Means Target It was several years ago. I was working at a coffee shop in Norwich during the pandemic, and a group of co-workers sat just behind me. One…

My reflections continue: "The Workplace Scapegoat: When Different Means Target"
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-workplac...

London art auction raises over £250,000 for Gaza medical aid A charity art auction in London has raised over £250,000 for emergency medical aid in Gaza.

www.newarab.com/news/london-...

Hashemi on Women in Sports YouTube video by Sertaç Sehlikoglu

I found myself listening to my interview with Faezeh Hashemi (former president of the Islamic Federation for Women's Sport) during the 2012 London Olympics.

youtu.be/w8NcNeZDeIw?...

A really exciting opportunity to sit down with renowned #author and #psychologist #GunduzVassaf for our latest podcast episode. Take a listen! tinyurl.com/Spotify-Imag...

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Thank you! Lucky to have Emily Edwards on the team too!

Congratulations!!

Dear Everyone,

I am excited to announce my appointment as Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life!

I am looking forward to working with incredible scholars globally!

Here's my editorial note:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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++ — the resilience you would see on the face of any autistic individual persevering through a world that often demands they suppress their authentic way of being whilst fighting for what they know to be right."

"I respect her every time I see her face because I can read the tensions written there. The tension on her face, to me, simultaneously shows her resilience++

We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice In a world increasingly paralysed by performative activism and social conformity, we need what I call “an autistic nudge” — the kind of…

"We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice"

sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/we-all-need-...

This will be part of the book project
"Is Critique Islamic?"
So any suggestions are more than welcome!

Thank you!! Little excitements

@takhayyul.bsky.social is directing the discussions.

The first four MOST-READ articles in History and Anthropology are from our special issue "Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique"

HUGE CONGRATS!!!

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@verenameyer.bsky.social
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Open Access UCL Research: Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

+++"There are other ways of making a speech unfree, including by making it insignificant [and then marking it as uncivil or too loud when forced to repeat]."

++" Paradoxically, she cannot prove that she is unheard, as her options are either being further denied or treated as ‘too loud’ (high-pitched). In this state of void, free speech does not really have any particular relevance." +++

A Brown Woman is Never a Senior or On Sara Ahmed’s Strangeness

I found myself thinking about this:

"Being unheard is a state. It is a cosmos that creates its own reality. A void filled with denial." ++

sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/a-brown-woma...

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It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gaza’s Children Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s arriving too slowly.

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...