Reading through a postcolonial queer-feminist lens
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Queering & broadening conversations for a systems approach to planetary health (systems medicine) | Unpacking politics of knowledge by critical theory
Master of Arts (MA) Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Science (PhD)
"The university is a critical institution or it is nothing" (Stuart Hall)
#BlackLivesMatter ✊🏾🏳️🌈 🌈 Vegan 🚲 he/they
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| Book Section: Critical Innovation Studies (CIS) | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00011 |
#Buildings & #Rooftops & #Sunsets & #Derrida
Upon unpacking, excavating, histories of #ideas, ideologies, and #systems of thought, they reveal continuities, ruptures, coalescence, and discontinuities, and in both #time and #place.
This post is about #continuity, a place where we used to meet as grad students at U of Toronto in 1990s to discuss ideas and more. The tradition and critical thinking continue in 2026. And as a York U alum.
"There are places where the future doesn’t arrive all at once - where #change doesn’t build in a #straight line, where #systems shift in #fragments and not in some ‘aha’ moments. In much of South Asia, this isn’t new. It’s how people have lived for a long time, through repetition, return, adjustment, and stubborn persistence."
- Lagori Collective
#Bengaluru, #Karnataka
This resonates and reverberates across #time.
The rise of populism and post-truth is a wake up call to humanity and modernity to: (1) Recognize that knowledge production, journalism (and life) are value-loaded, and thus, inherently political, (2) Rethink the relationship between journalism and activism, (3) Realize it is not politics but sweeping politics under the carpet and unchecked human power that are existential threats to journalism, democracy and peace on planet Earth in the 21st century
This article at Aeon unpacks Foucault's idea that unchecked power is everywhere, and that it is often cloaked by changing format, content, form, discourse, and thus can undermine liberatory struggles for democracy and equal rights.
Güncelliğini koruyan Aeon dergisindeki bu yazı, Foucault’nun, muktedirin ve gücün içerik, format ve şekil değiştirerek (e.g. içeriden ve içererek) özgürlük mücadelelerini ve direnişleri etkisizleştirebileceği düşüncesini de hatırlatıyor.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever
#Vegan #breakfast is healthy in the summer and year-round.
#Idli, a steamed savory cake made from a fermented batter of rice and lentils (urad dal), and served with #chutney and #sambar, make a nutritious low-calorie flavourful vegan breakfast chock-full of healthy #antioxidants. Common in South India and South Asia and also in Toronto.
Masala chai is an option to add to the idli breakfast.
Foucault’s work on power matters now more than ever in this era of #interregnum, polycrisis, concentration of political power, and erosion of democracy and civil rights.
"Power is all the more cunning because its basic forms can change in response to our efforts to free ourselves from its grip"
https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever
"Insurgent #Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War" (Duke University Press, 2019) — By Ronak K Kapadia
https://www.dukeupress.edu/insurgent-aesthetics
🦋 On queer #worldmaking in an era of never-ending wars & struggle for #democracy
☮️ Queer theory can broaden politics and #critical #systems thinking
📌 And yet because queer-phobia is, unfortunately, not uncommon, including and particularly among the left, queer history & theory are not considered adequately in the toolbox of liberatory politics
