At #OnBelonging we’re kicking off our session 1.3, our first lightning talk session, with @MiraAssafK, Madhubrata Bhattacharyya, and Anna Frieda Kuhn!
@MiraAssafK Our first speaker for 1.3 is @MiraAssafK with ‘Borders and Freedom of Movement: The Case of Royal Women’. Her paper will focus on the mobility of two royal women, Una and Duessa in The Faerie Queene. #OnBelonging
Paper accompanied by visuals addressing geography, displacement and belonging - first an image of graffiti which reads ‘pro border, pro nation, stop immigration’. #OnBelonging
What does it mean to be a racialised royal woman? How can we/are these racialised bodies captured in motion? To what extent does race separate these women from fellow migrants? #OnBelonging
Next images are Una from TFQ alongside ‘Migrant Mother’ by Dorothea Lange. Both display white womenhood and mobility temporarily suspended #OnBelonging
Next is the 'Whore of Babylon' on a many headed monster, next to a photo of refugee women from the Western Sahara gathering to collect flour. These women condemned for never arriving #OnBelonging
Difference between these two sets of images signals an affinity between raced queens in TFQ and migrant women of the global south. @MiraAssafK asking how movement orients towards these womens' futures? #OnBelonging
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