Radio Tenthaus 105 : Reclaim Pride hang out -Maya Økland & Esra Ummak
21/06/2022 20:00 – 23:00
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As part of the exhibition, Dandara welcomed everybody for a social Reclaim Pride hang out in the Queer Boteco, at 20 PM we broadcasted an online radio talk between Maya Økland and researcher Esra Ummak about their research on intimate partner violence among LGBs in Norway.
Esra Ummak is a scholar and associate professor at VID Specialized University and worked as a visiting researcher at the psychology department of the Oslo University. Their master studies was about the attitudes of Mersin University students’ towards lesbian and gay individuals in Psychological Counselling and Guidance Department (PCG) at the Mersin University. Their PhD project was an experimental study regarding the group guidance on dealing with homophobia in PCG Department at the Çukurova University. Their first post-doc project was a cross-cultural comparative study of lesbian and bisexual women’s internalized heterosexism, and life satisfaction in Belgium and Turkey in Psychology Department at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Their second post-doc project was about intimate partner violence and internalized heterosexism among lesbian and bisexual women in Denmark and Turkey in Psychology Department at the Copenhagen University. Esra Ummak’s current project is about intimate partner violence among queers in Norway in Psychology Department at the Oslo University and VID Specialized University. Their current research interests include social cure approach to social identity, intimate partner violence, queer of colour and queers` mental health.
