Nil Mutluer (PhD, Comparative Gender Studies, Central European University) is a social scientist, and occasional journalist, TV programmer and consultant for civil society and art projects.  She thinks and writes on a gender, sexuality, ethnicity, belief systems, 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, and media and arts. She is currently affiliated with Leipzig University, Institute of Religion Studies as a Senior Researcher and EUME (Europe in the Middle East) - Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin as a Research Fellow. Lives in the transnational space between Berlin and Istanbul. She calls in-betweenness home.