Dr Reyhan Şahin, also known to many as Lady Bitch Ray, is a scholar, author, performance artist, activist, rapper, fashion designer, journalist, speaker and educational consultant. She studied linguistics, German language and literature, and education in Bremen and earned her doctorate in linguistics/language science. Her dissertation, ‘The Meaning of the Muslim Headscarf,’ was awarded the German Study Prize in 2013. Since 2018, she has been conducting research at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg as part of her habilitation on the connections between racism, anti-Semitism, the New Right, right-wing extremism, nationalism, intersectionality, anti-Muslim racism, anti-Alevi (and anti-Kurdish) racism, Islam and gender, including in (post)migrant communities. She currently holds a visiting professorship in cultural studies in the Studium Generale programme at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Since 2020, she has also been writing and performing spoken word texts on topics such as anti-racism, feminism, empowerment, memory culture and remembrance work, intersectionality and sexuality.