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 [...]
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Making Our Bodies Matter
Posted by Jaded on September 16, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/making-our-bodies-matter/
The Landscape Ahead: Who Will Identify The Individual?
Identity—the very essence of who we are and how we interact with others—is in the middle of a period of extraordinary tumult. The Internet and a host of new communications technologies have transformed the concept of identity and redefined our relationships to businesses, governments and constantly churning networks of friends and peers. Growing numbers of digital natives [...]
Posted by sexgenderbody on December 22, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/the-landscape-ahead-who-will-identify-the-individual/
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/
Advocating Choice in Sex, Gender & Body Identity
Jaded16′s Note: A strange trend has developed these days. MenPeople are making sense! On a number of issues! Rather regularly. Here is Arvan of SexGenderBody with another post! That makes sense! —– I like choice. I believe in choice. I think about choice as the exercise of one’s own mind and as fulfillment of any [...]
Posted by sexgenderbody on September 22, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/advocating-choice-in-sex-gender-body-identity/
The Disease Of Being Universal
This week, as India deals with the after-effects of Obama’s visit, where we dissect every word he said, try to re-read into the words he didn’t say, search for any snippets of news that would piece the puzzle to just what did the President really want to convey, we somehow conspicuously forget to think about the organised [...]
Posted by Jaded on November 12, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/the-disease-of-being-universal/