Breathing as the Dusty Third Worldling on a regularly alarming basis, is a difficult space to occupy, surely; even more so if you identify as feminine, which by this time almost always needs a special mention, like a parentheses of obligation. Given the Empire’s dedication to mapping and charting such invisible spaces, boundaries and borders often [...]
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Re-Righting Nether Roots
Posted by Jaded on January 8, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/re-righting-nether-roots/
OutSourcing Dusty Bodies
Existing as a Dusty Third Worldling while being a Lady is a strange enough predicament on its own –whether it’s under Western or Oriental eyes — anyone who identifies as a Lady in this part of the world will tell you so. Before you can get your words out, she’ll tell you how unfair her [...]
Posted by Jaded on December 9, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/outsourcing-dusty-bodies/
Dusty Women And Our Spaces
Yesterday I was cleaning my grandmum’s cupboard as I do every winter on her death anniversary. We’ve given most of her things away, all that is left of this amazing woman are a few clothes, a few letters and many photographs for which I cannot be thankful enough. Every year I see these frayed pictures, [...]
Posted by Jaded on December 8, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/dusty-women-and-our-spaces/
Musings From The Empire
So this Link Fest is two weeks late. In my defense, I was super busy, away on weekends and lazy the days I wasn’t away. But this means there are more links while I try to drag my lazyarse into writing more regularly. I’d like to remind you nice People from the Olde Interwebes that [...]
Posted by Jaded on December 6, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/musings-from-the-empire-4/
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/