Nil Mutluer (PhD, Comparative Gender Studies, Central European University) is a social scientist, researcher and occasional journalist, TV programmer and consultant for civil society and art projects.  She thinks and writes about gender, sexuality, ethnicity, belief systems, youth, migration, memory, nationalism, and everyday life, and is an advocate for rights and freedoms. Works and acts in the intersectional space of civil society, among academia, media and arts. She is currently affiliated with the Multiple Secularities Working Group at Leipzig University. Lives in the transnational space between Berlin and Istanbul. She calls in-betweenness home.