As the eldest daughter of a Hindu family, I am expected to occupy a number of spaces that intertwine, merge and blur with the larger idea or identity that I like to believe is me, somewhere inside, that will still remain once the layers of cultural expectations, communally re-enforced values are taken away, not to [...]
All posts for the month January, 2011
Cartographies Of Struggle
Posted by Jaded on January 22, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/cartographies-of-struggle/
On Peddling Access
This week I heard at an international seminar, “Existing while woman is such a hard thing to do, but I do it because I have no other way out”¹. I thought of saying to this lady, “Existing while woman is indeed hard, horrible, twisted and sometimes oppression’s declassé sibling, Existing While Dusty would be more [...]
Posted by Jaded on January 16, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/on-peddling-access/
Re-Righting Nether Roots
Breathing as the Dusty Third Worldling on a regularly alarming basis, is a difficult space to occupy, surely; even more so if you identify as feminine, which by this time almost always needs a special mention, like a parentheses of obligation. Given the Empire’s dedication to mapping and charting such invisible spaces, boundaries and borders often [...]
Posted by Jaded on January 8, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/re-righting-nether-roots/
Sub-Merged Margins And Us
Last week while returning a couple of books at the library, I saw the woman in the line next to mine was holding a copy of ‘Writing Caste, Writing Gender‘, a book I’ve read cover-to-cover a few times. She saw me looking at the book and started a conversation about the editor and how this was [...]
Posted by Jaded on January 3, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/sub-merged-margins-and-us/
Speech Through Silences
I got an invite from the Embassy Library this week, inviting me to a dinner they’re holding to celebrate Virginia Woolf’s birthday, the invite carries the stamp of the Bloomsbury Press that the Woolf’s used and there is a quote, “Arrange whatever comes your way”. Had I received this invite two years ago, I’d be [...]
Posted by Jaded on January 28, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/speech-through-silences/