Lubunca and the History of Istanbul Slang

Women, Gender, and Sex in the Ottoman World

with Nicholas Kontovas
hosted by Chris Gratien and Lydia Harrington
This episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history
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The term Lubunca refers to a type of slang historically used among Istanbul’s LGBTQ communities. The term has gained currency only in the past decades, but in this podcast, Nicholas Kontovas suggest much deeper orgins in an overview of this underground jargon and its connections to the historical sociolinguistics of Turkey’s urban communities.

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