CREDITS
Concept & Production: School of Transnational Organizing
Video Shooting & Editing: Jonas Brander (@jonasbrander) & Abou Baker Sidibé (@aboulboss)
Animation Design: Elena Bianco (@daiddenne)
»The Struggle Is Real« – A Video Portrait of Zeynep Karlıdağ
About the contributor
Zeynep Karlıdağ
Workers' Rights & Union Organizer
Zeynep was born in Elazığ, Turkey. She ranked 18th in Turkey overall in the university entrance examinations and graduated from BA in English Language Education at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi in Istanbul in 2020. She came to Germany in December 2020 to study and started working at Gorillas in February 2021 as a rider to make ends meet. In order to stop problems such as systematic wage theft, lack of health and safety equipment, as well as racist and sexist harassment, Zeynep organized with other workers in the Gorillas Workers Collective. Currently, she is a member of the newly established Workers’ Council at Gorillas and continues her studies at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in the department of MA English and American Studies focusing on linguistics.
