Note: This is a dialogue that has taken months to articulate, Numa and I have been talking about allyhood, groups and new modes of organising — important to remember this dialogue has no end — we are just certain about one thing, if any speculation around solidarity is not a dialogue, a mutual engagement then [...]
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Intimate Outsider
Posted by Jaded on November 27, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/intimate-outsider/
A response to #mencallmethings
A little background — this week Renee, Numa and I ranted a bit on tumblr, a P.S. to #mencallmethings if you can call it as #otherpeoplecallusthingstoo and by the time we finished, we realised we had so much more to say. The following post is a collaborative post by Renee and I. Post contains mentions of [...]
Posted by Jaded on November 14, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/a-response-to-mencallmethings/
Making Our Bodies Matter
A friend and I started talking about communities, alliances and feminism(s) a few months ago — this conversation is a brief culmination of our identities and ideologies. — Me: Writing about bodies isn’t too difficult for me, that was until I realised “writing about bodies” meant writing of bodies other than mine, or even if I [...]
Posted by Jaded on September 16, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/making-our-bodies-matter/
Privilege, Power, Colonialism, and International Development – Part 2
This is a guest post by Numa. She identifies as Bangladeshi-Austrian for the sake of convenience, and works in the field of International Development for which she sometimes gets paid a living wage. She has the ambition of engaging and encouraging wider dialogue on development from a dusty perspective and hopes that she can contribute [...]
Posted by Jaded on September 7, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/privilege-power-colonialism-and-international-development-%e2%80%93-part-2/
Re-Claiming Subversion
I haven’t written here for more than a month, because honestly I didn’t trust myself to write without exploding into particles of dust, or if I did manage to write somehow it would only be selective expletives repeated over and over — I’ve been more than just a little angry. Warning to readers, I’m not [...]
Posted by Jaded on October 19, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/re-claiming-subversion/