undefinedEvery Time We Walk, It Is a Pride March!undefined A Conversation on the Everyday Politics of Queer Walking

Abstract

This is a critical-meditative conversation between artist-researchers Avşar and Akıncı. Reflecting on 'queer walking' in two cities, Istanbul and Glasgow, it takes walking as an ever-shifting and embodied site of everyday politics. Avşar and Akıncı draw on voice messages, letters, and texts exchanged between them to auto-ethnographically trace how their daily walks have been undulating with wider political pressures and more intimate contexts. Echoing the Istanbul pride slogan, 'Every time we walk, it is a pride march!', this dialogue insists on honouring the quiet political capacities of walking queerly without overlooking the vulnerabilities that such public mobility can carry in autocratic regimes.