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‘Can You Really Be a Queer Muslim?’: Intersectionality and the Complexity of Identity
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Class Struggle, Education and Social Mobility: A Silent Family Rupture
‘Do your homework and listen in school. Otherwise, you’ll clean up after others for a living,’ my mother would say. This was the leitmotif of my childhood, repeated so many times that I would recite it in a whisper when she started uttering the first words. Since she was twelve, my mother worked as a cleaner. When she later got pregnant, she brought her child up by herself – just like her own mother before her…
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‘The Problem Starts When Children Are Three Years Old’: Sexual Abuse, The Education System, and Me
I work as a teacher for a pre-school where there are already signs of hegemonic social normalities. A teacher asks a little boy to be a ‘big strong helper’. They suggest to a little girl, ‘shall we get the sparkly pens out?’. The truth is, this is where the problem starts. Recently, I came to the realisation that I’m in the position to change it, for a certain few…