A Reflexive Space: (Re)imagining Educational Leadership, Genderedness, (De)coloniality
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Today, Abbu G, I see you in every reminder that authority is a trust, that people matter, that integrity matters, and that what reaches my hands must remain *halal*—lawfully and ethically earned. A part of me still lives somewhere between…
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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;…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Politics of Gender: Entangled Lives — Poverty, Patriarchy, and the Quiet Burdens of Womanhood
About (not)New Thread on Politics of Gender: In earlier reflections under Politics of Care, I wrote about the quiet labour of care that often unfolds in the margins of educational leadership. Yet care itself is never neutral. It is shaped…
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Politics of Care in the Divide: Children of the Same City with Different Schoolbags and Uneven Futures
In this blog, I reflect on the quiet violence of everyday inequity—where some children walk through polished gates with books in hand, while others walk barefoot past garbage heaps, stitched into the margins of our education system. A politics of…
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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…
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