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 [...]
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Making Our Bodies Matter
Posted by Jaded on September 16, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/making-our-bodies-matter/
Fostering Hospitable Silences
[Trigger Warning for mention of sexual abuse]. As a person who works with survivors/victims sexual and domestic abuse, I’m quite used to getting calls from people all over the city, most times it’s when I’m at the center — I talk to them and we assess the situation, whether the caller is in immediate danger [...]
Posted by Jaded on July 11, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/fostering-hospitable-silences/
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/
Re-Membering Ties; Re-Forming Bonds
Last week, I read Houria Bouteldja’s essay on Decolonial Feminism And The Privilege Of Solidarity and came away with agreeing with most of it, though there are some big problematic themes hazed over — like the ‘question’ of Islam and feminism co-existing (hint: this shouldn’t take consideration) or even the notion of ‘decolonisation’ mentioned many times [...]
Posted by Jaded on March 8, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/re-membering-ties-re-forming-bonds/
DeTonguing The Subaltern
This week all that seems to happen in India is the World Cup and How Incredibly Important It Is, for it is a game that involves super-important dudes with super-important dudes of other countries, and almost every newspaper is discussing the economics, sport tactics, strategics and politics — I don’t even know what this means when [...]
Posted by Jaded on February 20, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/detonguing-the-subaltern/