Tag: gender-justice
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Politics of Becoming: CV as A Site of Struggle
A CV appears to be a tidy record of qualifications, appointments, and achievements. Yet between its polished lines lie the dreams deferred, permissions withheld, doors quietly closed, and paths reshaped by gendered expectations. CV of a woman like me is not evidence of indecision; it is an archive of becoming within constraint—a life assembled through…
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Politics of Gender: The Girl Disappeared from Her Own Plate
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) offered us the labyrinth not simply as a place of confusion, but as a structure that keeps one walking, turning, and returning, never quite arriving at the centre. In the politics of gender, the labyrinth is often ordinary, and familiar, but taken-for-granted. Its walls are not always built with laws or loud…
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About the Reflexive Space
Welcome to the Reflexive Space, a place where I write from within the layered and often contested terrains of educational leadership and a woman leader, speaking from the margins. This blog grows from a long-standing unease with the way educational leadership is often portrayed—as a set of technical skills or neutral strategies, disconnected from the…
Saadia Adnan 