Tülin Duman

Tülin Duman has been active for many years in a number of projects fighting sexism, homophobia and transphobia, as well as racism – increasingly also in the areas of music and art. The pharmacist is the managing director of the Berlin events venue Südblock – a show space, meeting place and bar at Kottbusser Tor. Since 2010 she has been organising discussion events, concerts and queer-feminist parties there. Her DJ sets move between Oriental Beats and Sounds of the Middle East. From 2008 to 2011 Tülin Duman was managing director of GLADT e.V. (Gays and Lesbians aus der Türkei) – a self-organisation and psycho-social counselling centre by and for people affected by multiple forms of discrimination. Previously she was project coordinator of the Berlin Working Group for Health Promotion in the area of migration and social inequality. From 1997 to 2002 Tülin Duman has been working in Istanbul – in a human rights organisation, in a womens rights office and as the assistant project leader in a EU project.