Tag: life
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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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Sewing Dreams, Carrying Futures: The Politics of an Open Door
Education was the one door left open to me, but it did not open by itself. My mother sewed dreams into my school uniform, while my father carried me through flooded streets and spoke of a doctorate before I could imagine one. This is a reflection on the quiet labour of parental care, the politics…
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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…
Saadia Adnan 