Tag: gender studies

• Luscious Fragonard from St. Petersburg

  

  She was leaning on him as if she would fall if he did not support her. Then I noticed his foot on the bottom folds of her carefully pleated white dress. He was persistent. He was a thief; the kiss was stolen, grabbed, plucked. Sahir Ludhianvi’s Abhi Na Jaao Chod Kar gently played in the…

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  5 Jun 2019

  Art, Audience, Awareness, Bollywood, diversity, Gender, Story, Travel

  always the muse never the artist, art, court culture, fragonard, french art, gender studies, Ghazal, transnational gender issues

• The walls of the room I am building

  

  The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies had their research day conference on 26th May 2014 in Amsterdam. The day was titled – Doing Gender in the Netherlands: Feminism in Transition (Activism, Institutions and Canons). I was there to present a paper: Tumbling Wall: Adrienne Rich Dismantles a Male Form. My paper spoke about the…

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  1 Jun 2014

  Academic, Awareness, Books, Poetry, Story, Travel

  Adrienne Rich, amsterdam, awareness, canons, doing gender, feminism, gender studies, Ghazal, graduate school, Mirza Ghalib, NOG, phd, poems, research, structure, study, the netherlands, transition