1)What is Gender Apartheid (GA)?
2)Added Value of Apartheid Approach 3) GA in #Afghanistan bit.ly/3yhuCDV
Stand w #Afghan Women
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"#GenderApartheid is the systematic segregation of the sexes imposed through law & policy as a governing ideology. In this construct, segregation may be accompanied by the total exclusion of women as in Taliban #Afghanistan, the
paradigmatic example of gender apartheid" #IWD2023
Oct 4, 2022 • 23 tweets • 15 min read
To counter some of the disappointing & predictable responses to heroic #protests in #Iran, incl in #academia, I share my recent essay which calls on academics to avoid undercutting dissident #feminist voices, incl those of #Muslim heritage
(Long) Thread
Concepts like Orientalism & Islamophobia, originally responding to realities of past & present subordination, are now sometimes used by Western critical intellectuals to discipline those who exercise their equal right to be critical of their own contexts.. bit.ly/3yh1JI9