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 [...]
All posts tagged Colonialism
Intimate Outsider
Posted by Jaded on November 27, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/intimate-outsider/
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/
Privilege, Power, Colonialism, and International Development – Part 1
Numa 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 to making the world less fail in [...]
Posted by Jaded on June 27, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/privilege-power-colonialism-and-international-development-%e2%80%93-part-1/
Between The Lines
Recently I came across Sara Ahmed’s fantastic essay ‘Feminist Killjoys (And other Willful Subjects)’ and have been re-reading several sections of the essay since. I identify with more parts of the essay than I can count, but one line that never leaves me is “[As a feminist killjoy] you become the problem you create” –- [...]
Posted by Jaded on June 22, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/between-the-lines/
Thinking In Tongues
Lately I’ve been very busy translating things — French things to English, diluting some literary Gujarati with the help of my grandma and strangely, also my thoughts from English to my native tongue(s) as this summer break she helps me read in a few tongues that have been rusting inside me since the past few years. For [...]
Posted by Jaded on June 3, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/thinking-in-tongues/
