Prof. Papatya Bucak Publishes Essay at Joyland Magazine

Congratulations to Prof. Papatya Bucak on publication of a new essay, "How to be Half Mixed Everything Both Sort Of," at Joyland Magazine, Issue #6.

An excerpt from "How to be Half Mixed Everything Both Sort Of":

What are you? people say, confronted with my American face and my Turkish name.

Half, I say.

Half of me left home at four years old, the other half returned home.

I’ve always thought of myself as half, have always described myself as half. But what does that label do to me? Other people say mixed, but they don’t usually mean mixed. They don’t mean ingredients blended into a new whole. They mean a person divided. But am I divided?   [ . . . ]