Marginals Lead the Show is highlighting news with a focus on queer, non-binary, trance community from Middle East and Europe. Having met through their collaboration for the regular concert and party series they co-organized in 2019, Ilgaz (musicologist) and Merve (journalist) are also interviewing marginalized musicians and sound artists for the show and playing original works of the artists.
Marginals Lead the Show #3 with Merve & Ilgaz //08.01.2021
In this episode we speak about the feminicides in Turkey. Unfortunately Turkey welcomed the new year with horrible feminicides again. We discuss in detail the hazards of not implementing Istanbul Convention and bring concrete solutions to eliminate feminicide and other types of violence against womxn. You will be hearing great songs from womxn artists like Peaches, Burka Band, Malaria vs Chicks on Speed, Ajda Pekkan and more who rebel against the patriarchal society.
26 Apr 2021
Marginals Lead the Show #2 with Merve, Ilgaz & Madır Öktiş // 28.11.2020
In our #2 episode, we stream an interview with Madir Öktiş. Öktiş (they/them) is an Istanbul-based musician, performance artist, activist and one of the initiators of open-stage Drag Performance “Dudakların Cengi”. Öktiş spoke about how the queer scene in Istanbul is experiencing the pandemie days, the striking success of Dudaklarin Cengi, their and their friends’ music and also made a special playlist for our show.”
13 Nov 2020
Marginals Lead the Show #1 with Merve, Ilgaz & 6zm // 13.11.2020
Marginals Lead the Show #1: In this episode we speak about the earthquake in İzmir, Turkey, the near-total ban on Abortion in Poland, and the difficulties the Turkish Music and Nightlife is going through since the outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemie. Gizem Oruç (https://soundcloud.com/6zm) (they/them/theirs) is a musician, producer, audio-visual artist and technician based in Berlin. Besides producing and performing electronic dance music under the alias 6zm, they are involved in trans-feminist collectives, including the turkish pop / r’n’b / arabesque band Gazino Neukölln (https://soundcloud.com/gazinoneukolln)and the queer-DIY project space Raumerweiterungshalle. Gizem gives POC oriented sound and music production related workshops, speeches; coordinates/curates events; collaborates as composer and sound designer; and works as technician and technical project developer at Eidotech. Towards the end of our conversation, you will be hearing the special set Gizem produced for this show. For more of Gizem’s music, you can check 6zm and Gazino Neukölln on Soundcloud.
Btw if you are interested in supporting queer night life workers in Istanbul, you can donate here (https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-queer-nightlife-workers-in-istanbul) and get the t-shirt in the image 🙂
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