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 [...]
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A response to #mencallmethings
Posted by Jaded on November 14, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/a-response-to-mencallmethings/
On Signs And Signifiers
I’ve been pretty busy moving and settling in a new city these past three weeks, I couldn’t keep up with people, let alone the internet — thus thankfully missing debates around whether Mumbai should have slutwalks or not. One of the organisers asked me whether I’d be willing to help organise as we’ve worked on a few things [...]
Posted by Jaded on August 15, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/on-signs-and-signifiers/
The Body (In)Visible
This post is written for Blogging Against Disabilism Day. It is a wonderful space for conversations around disability across the world, do check out other entries on the blog. — There is a word in my native language called ‘laaj’ which loosely translates to ‘shame’ or ‘honour’. This word gets used a lot in daily [...]
Posted by Jaded on May 2, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/the-body-invisible/
Learning Relevance Through Erasure
One of the few things people connect with India besides Slumdog Millionaire and hub of cheap Third World labour are the epics Ramayan and Mahabharat — which are of course, anglicised to Ramayana and Mahabharata. Almost always, these epics are seen as the narrativisation of ‘the great oral tradition of storytelling’, basing this tradition in [...]
Posted by Jaded on May 6, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/learning-relevance-through-erasure/