Tag: gender
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Whose Pain Counts? On the Politics of Grievability and Unequal Lives (Part I)
A few days ago, I did not know Professor Jason Arday. I came to know his name through the headlines, and then through the grief, anger and recognition expressed by academics, particularly those from racialised backgrounds and for whom his story struck painfully close. It left me sitting again with questions that have long followed…
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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…
Saadia Adnan 