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The coupling of courage (traditionally masculine) with sweetness (gendered as feminine) creates a dual‑coded discourse. While the campaign attempts to re‑appropriate sweetness as a vehicle for agency, the persisting binary framing (courage = masculine, sweet = feminine) can reinforce, rather than dismantle, stereotypical gender scripts (Gill, 2007).

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Kekilli’s career has been the subject of a growing body of scholarship on ethnic minority stardom in Germany (Hafez, 2015; Bader, 2020). Scholars such as Koc (2022) argue that Kekilli’s “dual‑code” (German‑Turkish) identity enables her to navigate multiple cultural registers, while also exposing her to “typecasting” pressures. Her shift from art‑house cinema to mainstream genre work has been read both as a strategic diversification (Erdmann, 2023) and a compromise with patriarchal market forces (Levy, 2024). Kekilli’s career has been the subject of a