by Orçun Karamustafa and Saliç Doğan
ARMING UP WITH FRAGILITY
Gender is a text repeatedly written on our bodies; this repetition is embodied in the body like a
stroke of scissors,
a headline shackle, or uncontrolled bleeding. As Butler says, “fragility is a shared bodily
experience.” This shared experience bears the marks of the crushing weight of newspaper headlines,
the sharpness of social pruning, and the overflowing violence of poisonous masculinity. These
photographs, however, treat fragility not as a point of weakness, bu