Kübra Gümüsay
- language and being
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This book follows a longing: for a language that does not reduce people to categories. Kübra Gümüsay, one of the most influential journalists and political activists in our country, has long been committed to equal rights and discourse at eye level. She explores the question of how language shapes our thinking and determines our politics. She shows how people become invisible as individuals when they are always seen as part of a group – and are only allowed to express themselves as such. But how can people really speak as people? And how can we all – in a time of increasingly harsh, hateful discourse – communicate with each other in a different way?
In 2011 Gümüssay’s blog Ein Fremdwörterbuch was nominated for the Grimme Online Award. She was a columnist for the taz and has appeared on the TEDx stage several times. The campaign #without exception # which she co-founded was awarded the Clara-Zetkin Women’s Prize in 2016.
In the series Think – Language – Mind
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