Bîşeng Ergin (pen name Keça Filankes) holds degrees in International Relations/Peace and Conflict Studies, Sociology, and Political Science from Goethe University Frankfurt. Her parents fled Turkey when she was a baby, and today as a Kurdish woman, educator, and social justice activist, Filankes dedicates her political life to fighting discrimination, fascism, and war in solidarity with migrants and refugees. She writes and performs with Literally Peace, a transcultural German and Syrian collective.
Lessons on Filankes’ Work
Lessons from Related Themes
- Sanyal, “Home,” 2019
- al-Mozany, Der Marschländer: Bagdad, Beirut, Berlin (1999)
- Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008) Module: Writing the Self/Other
- Khider’s Der falsche Inder (2008) Module
- Keça Filankes, “Zwei Çaylöffel Şekir,” 2020
- Ostashevsky, “The Feeling Sonnets,” 2019
- Weyhe, “Rude Girl,” 2022
- Hügel-Marshall, Invisible Woman, 1993
