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Care, Mutuality and Fraternity #4: Opposites by Catharine Ananova

In this poem, Catharine writes about how ‘educational’ materials – even as seemingly innocuous as grammar rules of opposites – often establish and reinforce binaries and hierarchies for children. Compounded by pedagogic practice that is unwilling to examine its rules and binaries, this leaves young people who are uncomfortable with the hierarchies, and whose lived …

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Care, Mutuality and Fraternity #3: What do you want to be in the future? by Swastika Jajoo

In this poem, Swastika writes about how educational and professional spaces imagine people’s personal/private selves and academic/professional selves as completely distinct, and without influence on one another. Professional and academic success is often privileged at the cost of personal physical and mental wellbeing – and is a sign of the absence of a culture of …

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Care, Mutuality and Fraternity #2: Jawaharlal Nehru University: A community of hope, fraternity and learning through acceptance by Tanika Singh and Neha Wadhwa

As Oscar Wilde had said, “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to it.” This piece is our attempt to do away with our temptation of writing (and getting published) a piece about …

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