Ebru Calin is a multilingual doctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool, activist, and a first-generation Muslim immigrant graduate. The empirical aim of Ebru’s study is to move beyond the intersecting axes of gender and race by illuminating experiences of what it is to be a homosexual or heterosexual person of faith and to capture how the interstices of religion and socially constructed notions of ‘good motherhood’ and ‘professionalism’ influence these individuals’ employment experiences over time. Thus, Ebru’s proposed study addresses a pressing need for research that is both interdisciplinary and intersectional in its approach.

Growing up as an ethnic and religious minority in Germany, Ebru developed a passion for writing about the immigrant experience, race, sexuality, and issues of social justice from an early age. Her recent TEDx talk “Too brown, too Queer and too Muslim? Or rather too white, and not Muslim or Queer enough?” (2021) At Royal Central School London features Ebru’s experience of what it means to live in the ‘in-between,’ a third space marked by the intersectional layers of Queer Muslim immigrants’ identities.

Ebru is happiest in a messy bun, wearing oversized sweats and fluffy slippers with a cup of coffee at home surrounded by her partner and her Labrador where you can most likely find her reading high fantasy shifter romance books, writing poetry and dancing to the rhythm of her heart.