The following post is by Numa and I as a response to Eve Ensler’s post Over It. There are some things you don’t get to be over, Eve Ensler. But if we’re going to play this game, here are some of ours. —- We are over cis white feminists claiming to speak for the rest of [...]
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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/
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/
