Tag: social-justice
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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 Gender: The Quiet Arithmetic of Worth
She did not leave with noise just a quiet folding of her future into the corners of a home. A name erased from the school register, a presence absorbed into duty as if learning could wait, and she could too.
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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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Politics of Care Beyond the System: Answering the Call No One Made
That morning, I stood haunted by a quiet question: Why is it that those with no obligation often carry the deepest sense of responsibility? While state apparatuses perfected the art of procedural evasion, here was a man who had no reporting officer, no allocated budget, no official recognition—and yet, every morning, he showed up…
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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 