When I started working on this piece, 22-year old Kasandra Perkins was shot to death nine times by her abusive partner, American football player Jovan Belcher. The very same day she was murdered, two other women, lost in and amongst nameless statistics, would have also […]
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Sister Outsider | The Politics of Misrecognition: on Mona Eltahawy’s ‘Why Do They Hate Us’
In her first column for Ceasefire, Hana Riaz responds to ‘Why Do They Hate Us”, the controversial piece published last week by Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy. “I do not want to be tolerated, or misnamed. I want to be recognized.” — Audre Lorde The problem with […]
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