What if the answers to America’s identity crisis aren’t found in headlines or policy briefs… but in the lived experiences of women halfway across the world?
In this episode of foorum Insider’s Core Conversations, I sat down with Dr. Katie Gaebel, a researcher and educator who spent years studying the stories of Turkish women in Germany, women caught between two cultures, two languages, and two definitions of who they were allowed to be.
Her dissertation unpacked more than academic theory. It revealed the human cost of failed multiculturalism, the silent power of structural bias, and the resilience of women who chose to define themselves in spite of the system. 
We talked about what’s happening in America right now — polarization, performative diversity, a growing distrust in belonging and why these women’s stories might just hold the mirror we desperately need.
This isn’t just a conversation about immigrants or Germans or Turks. It’s about all of us, about what it means to belong, to be seen, and to reimagine a society where identity isn’t something you earn, but something you own.
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