Yesim Candan: Femicide

Expert, Columnist

45 min

NL

Crime journalism,
Human rights,
Cultural differences

Influence,
Inspire,
Inform

Femicide is a word that often sounds distant, as if it is something that takes place mostly in other countries. Yet the stories behind it also touch our daily lives and society. Columnist and speaker Yesim Candan knows how to make this painfully clear in her lectures. With penetrating examples, personal reflections and confrontational figures, she shows that femicide is not a distant reality, but an urgent problem that stems from inequality, silent

With her penetrating stories and tireless efforts, Yesim Candan gives a voice to women who often go unheard. As a writer, researcher and activist, she puts femicide on the map. Her lecture is confrontational, but also hopeful: a call for awareness, recognition and change.

A business administration graduate of Nyenrode Business University, Yesim Candan has profiled herself as a champion of diversity from the beginning of her career. She introduced the term bicultural as a positive and contemporary alternative to the loaded word allochtoon, and with the national contest Inspiration for Integration (IVI), which she initiated, dedicated herself to making visible new perspectives on living together in the Netherlands.

As of now, Yesim Candan can be booked through Showbird starting at €1,500,
Yesim charges a special rate for schools and foundations.

In 2010 she received the Aletta van Nu Prize from Atria, the knowledge institute for emancipation, in recognition of her contribution to the social debate. A year later, her first book Nederland Word Wakker! was published and in 2015, in collaboration with de Volkskrant and the Rijksmuseum, she compiled a list of the fifty most influential Turkish Dutch people.

For five years, Yesim wrote weekly columns for RTLNieuws.nl and contributed essays for FD Persoonlijk. She also replaced Ronald Plasterk for six months with weekly columns in De Telegraaf and appeared several times as a guest columnist with de Volkskrant. Nowadays she writes probing columns about intimate terror for LINDA. and lifestyle articles for VROUW.

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