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 [...]
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Privilege, Power, Colonialism, and International Development – Part 1
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/
The Rest Is Not Silence But Belongs To Me
This is a guest post by Thursday of Weekday Blues. I refer to Thurs as my Token Moozlum Friend when around my radically conservative Hindu family (but no one else gets to call Thurs a token for ungodly things will befall on you; and for all you know, we could definitely curse you with our [...]
Posted by Jaded on May 15, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/the-rest-is-not-silence-but-belongs-to-me/
On Taking The Bus
This is a guest post by Deepti. She just finished her Masters in communication. A connoisseur of good and meaningful writing, she spends half her day glued to the thousand feeds on her Google Reader. She spends the other half, nurturing an unhealthy obsession for American crime procedurals, cinema, and dissing popular culture. She researches [...]
Posted by Jaded on March 28, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/on-taking-the-bus/
David Cameron, What A Racist
David Cameron, our benevolent and democratically-leader, here in the U.K, recently made a speech about the widespread problem of terrorism which the world currently faces, and the causes there of. You might be surprised to discover that this speech is almost entirely devoid of racism! Cameron instead focuses on actual and true facts, that just [...]
Posted by Jaded on February 15, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/david-cameron-what-a-racist/
White Privilege: The Stockholm Syndrome Edition
We recently posted a video on our tumblr feed, which demonstrates the pervasive and nauseating totality of White Privilege. The subject was addressed on DailyKos this morning, with the author dealing with the defensiveness, denial and disbelief from whites about whether such a thing exists. White Privilege not only exists – it is the law of the [...]
Posted by sexgenderbody on March 1, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/white-privilege-the-stockholm-syndrome-edition/