I can't stop talking about this book.
- Jamie Klingler, co-founder #ReclaimTheseStreets,
From the very first lines, Kübra Gümüsay shows herself to be a master storyteller. ... at once vigorous and generous, pleasurable and galvanising.
- Sophie Hughes, International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator,
What a gem. ... Makes you look at the world, and yourself, afresh.
- Minna Salami, author, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
As important a book as its title suggests.
- Chris Young, Head of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Cambridge,
Thought-provoking ... well researched, grounded in and citing the conversations and contexts it emerges out of. ... Timely and important
- Annie Rutherford, Goethe Institute Blog
An act of liberation - and a clever essay of literary quality and political strength.
NZZ am Sonntag
Precise, clever and extremely readable ... an important, thought-provoking commentary. Gümüsay's passionate plea for a new, free language and a new, free way of thinking questions the status quo.
Aachener Nachrichten
A polemical plea for a new use of language in public discourse. A polemic, however, that counteracts the battle cries with a personal tone and an inviting gesture to start a dialogue.
Deutschlandfunk
A reckoning with our linguistic habits
Zeit