Tag: gender-justice
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When Presence Does Not Quite Count. On the Politics of Grievability and Unequal Lives (Part II)
If we manage our pain too successfully, others may never have to see it. This reflection turns to that everyday forms of diminishment that shape women’s lives: when vulnerability must be disguised as composure, and testimony is treated with suspicion; when excellence becomes expectation and authority remains conditional. Drawing on Judith Butler, I ask whose…
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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…
