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i am a desi diaspora chick interested in people and their browness in various forms (especially those that might deviate in different ways from the slick bollywood images that i/we regularly consume)

browness is a fluid term used by many in many different ways. i generally use it as we did growing up; desi peeps

"I’m very passionate about structural inequalities, so I will now sit down and figure out how to poke at the roots, rather than trim the branches."
N. Panchmadia
(a PhD student)

(Source: uaextension.posterous.com)

— 2 years ago with 4 notes
#praxis  #community  #academia  #research  #activism 
"I’m not as complicated a person or as intellectual a person as some of you may be. Nor is theory of great importance to me. I don’t…know what that means, really. [But] I need to understand what I’m going through and what people around me are going through. I want to use any tool I can find in order to do that."

-Himani Bannerji, Dec. 11, 2009

(source)

— 2 years ago with 2 notes
#theory  #critical theory  #academia  #praxis  #desi  #himani bannerhi 
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