Kübra Gümüşay

Fellowship

Mercator Senior Fellowship

Granting institution

Period of the Fellowship

January 2022 - February 2023

Project title

About the Future

Project description

During her fellowship Kübra Gümüşay explores the conditions necessary for a fairer society. She argues that the major challenge to achieve a better future for everyone is to put utopian theories into practice. Identifying existing utopias and learning about their success, failure and experiences will allow to draw conclusions for the common good of society.

Short biography

Kübra Gümüşay is a writer and public speaker on topics including the internet politics, feminism and racism. Her book “Sprache & Sein”, published in spring 2020, was named as one of the best non-fiction books in 2020 by Die Welt. She is co-founder of eeden, a feminist co-creation space in Hamburg, as well as numerous campaigns and associations – including the anti-racism campaign #SchauHin, the feminist alliance #ausnahmslos and the campaign “Organisierte Liebe”. Her blog einfremdwoerterbuch.com was nominated for the Grimme Online Award in 2011. Forbes magazine ranked her in the top 30 under 30 in Europe for media and marketing in 2018.