Together
by Simone Dede Ayivi TRANSIT vol. Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by em Sandberg Download PDF Back to “Overcoming the Present” or return to Your Homeland is Our Nightmare. Ever since I’ve been able to think, I’ve been writing shitlists: Capitalism is on there. Racism, sexism. But also no champagne after premieres, drunk people […]
Overcoming the Present [Gegenwartsbewältigung]
by Max Czollek TRANSIT vol. 12, no. 2 Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Sex” or continue on to “Together” by Simone Dede Ayivi. A short while back, I received the following email: “We would like to invite you to a debate. Our topic is: How does one deal with German guilt as […]
Sex
by Reyhan Şahin TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Didem Uca Download PDF Back to “Language” or continue on to “Overcoming the Present” by Max Czollek. Smack! go my Turkish-German pussy lips. Smack, smack, when I let them flourish and thrive like an outlaw. Smack, smack, smack, when they’re wet and feeling boundless […]
Food
by Vina Yun TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Thomas B. Fuhr and Wojtek Gornicki Download PDF Back to “Privileges” or continue on to “Language” by Margarete Stokowski. “Oh, yeah, yeah,” K-Pop superstar Jay Park croons. “Oh, the wholesome samgyetang, the sweet-and-sour galbi jjim. Haemul pajeon on rainy days, andong jjimdak on those […]
Privileges
by Olga Grjasnowa TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Allison García Download PDF Back to “Dangerous” or continue on to “Food” by Vina Yun. One of the greatest privileges in life is the ability to choose who you want to be. There is a kind of privilege that lies in the discrepancy between […]
Dangerous
by Nadia Shehadeh TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Elizabeth Sun Download PDF Back to “Home” or continue on to “Privileges” by Olga Grjasnowa. Anyway the wind blows, Doesn’t really matter to me,To me. – Freddie Mercury I grew up in a small town in East Westphalia which—in addition to a cute historic […]
Home
by Mithu Sanyal TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Didem Uca Download PDF Back to “Insult” or continue on to “Dangerous” by Nadia Shehadeh. Talking about this has become something of a cliché, because surely by now even the last person on earth should know that the question “But where are you really […]
Looks
by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jonas Teupert Download PDF Back to “Love” or continue on to “Insult” by Enrico Ippolito. A friend and I walk through the museum quarter of a West-German city, surrounded by a throng of tourists. There are plenty of attractions here, but none seems to […]
Love
by Sharon Dodua Otoo TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Adrienne Merritt Download PDF Back to “Trust” or continue on to “Looks” by Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. Love is…about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun. – bell hooks Before I became a mother, I didn’t have any […]
Trust
by Deniz Utlu TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Work” or continue on to “Love” by Sharon Dodua Otoo. – 1 – The year I took my high school exit exams,[i] U.S. forces brought Murat Kurnaz of Bremen, Germany to Guantánamo, mistakenly believing him to be a […]