Foreword to the Translations by Jon Cho-Polizzi TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Download PDF Back to Your Homeland is Our Nightmare or continue on to “Foreword to the Collection” by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. It is a great privilege to introduce this second (and now complete) issue of TRANSIT Journal’s digital publication of […]

Together by Simone Dede Ayivi TRANSIT vol. Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Michael 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 […]

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 […]

Language by Margarete Stokowski TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Food” or continue on to “Sex” by Reyhan Şahin. Allegedly, in China, at the end of 2018, the first genetically altered humans were born. This news unleashed a worldwide shockwave of criticism, and the Chinese government forbade […]

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 […]

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 […]