[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 [...]
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Fostering Hospitable Silences
Posted by Jaded on July 11, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/fostering-hospitable-silences/
Slipping Out Of Gendered Spaces
Earlier this week I was discussing Wuthering Heights with my class of 11th graders. We were talking about how demarcations, borders and outlines of the Body are continuously challenged in the text, in such a way that the Body becomes a hybrid of human and beast. At one point Catherine exclaims, “Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He is always, [...]
Posted by Jaded on November 21, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/slipping-out-of-gendered-spaces/
On Charting Invisible Bodies
As a Lady born on the brink of globalisation, English is something that comes to me as naturally as breathing. As a kid, I had access to all sorts of books, movies and songs from the ‘Center’ of civilisation — U.S. and Europe of course! — and was encouraged to speak in English as much [...]
Posted by Jaded on October 25, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/on-charting-invisible-bodies/
Writing From The Mud Edition Of Stereotyping
As a ‘natives’ of what is still considered today ‘The Third World’ sometimes we get asked the silliest questions, as my students and I were discussing today. It never fails to amaze me how deep and inanely hilarious — where hilarious is the new heartbreaking — stereotypes are. Especially when they are as sensitive as, [...]
Posted by Jaded on September 28, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/writing-from-the-mud-edition-of-sterotyping/
The Things We Always Remember Edition Of Selective Memories
I saw Before Sunset about two years ago and this one line has still stuck around in my head — “Memories are wonderful things, if you don’t have to deal with the past”. Contrary to popular belief I don’t quote such lines quite ritually. Because that would be embarrassing; not that I know anything about [...]
Posted by Jaded on July 4, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/the-things-we-always-remember-edition-of-selective-memories/