Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)
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The Politics of Solidarity in the North American Academia
I think we're always implicated in a profound disparity in structures of power no matter who they are and part of the work that we do is an effort to mitigate harm. I don't think any effort at trying to stop harm or fight for justice really is ever pure or clean in some ways, he says. He adds there is a reckoning that all of us have to face in terms of creating spaces and opening it up for Dalit academics and activists and students. The critiques that are generated by comrades and feminist friends or organizers that occupy different positions of power may generate what you know somebody like Sarah Emad calls bad feelings which she says "our creative responses to histories that are unfinished"
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