6SharesThe dual ways in which women’s bodies are culturally treated include, fetishizing or commodifying; which turns women into objects to be covered and coveted and; sexualising, which limits women’s roles to servicing male entitlement. Both approaches devalue women’s gendered identities and demote the option where women may seek pleasure in/for their own bodies or celebrate […]
Successively, the shifts in contexts reveal how the sentiment of injury has rescinded from a prerogative that minorities could claim as victims of majoritarianism. Today, those belonging to the majority religion claim injury and victimization from not just perceived offenders of Islam but even by those who may criticise the flaws in the colonial blasphemy […]
Last week, a group of Pakistani scholars and activists sparred in an extended online debate over the Thinkfest committee’s decision to host historian, Niall Ferguson on their webinar series. He was in dialogue with Professor Rabia Akhtar on his recent book on networks and power. The debate between the objectors to Ferguson’s views[1] and the […]
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