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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A response to #mencallmethings
A little background — this week Renee, Numa and I ranted a bit on tumblr, a P.S. to #mencallmethings if you can call it as #otherpeoplecallusthingstoo and by the time we finished, we realised we had so much more to say. The following post is a collaborative post by Renee and I. Post contains mentions of [...]
Posted by Jaded on November 14, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/a-response-to-mencallmethings/
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/
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/
Re-Claiming Subversion
I haven’t written here for more than a month, because honestly I didn’t trust myself to write without exploding into particles of dust, or if I did manage to write somehow it would only be selective expletives repeated over and over — I’ve been more than just a little angry. Warning to readers, I’m not [...]
Posted by Jaded on October 19, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/re-claiming-subversion/