what is happening in Assam, but I have been writing about the protests in Delhi on my blog and hearing about it, accounts of these protests, from relatives there. I’d like to go back to what I said and remove the word sacrifice actually; it came up following the talk I gave, not during it. Still thinking things through. The talk I gave today was on narrative, trauma and the nervous system, with a particular focus on sexual violence—thinking, also, of Ban—who is caught by a gang of boys in the opening minutes or hours of a historical riot, the riot of April 23rd, 1979. I think I already talked about this girl in another answer to one of your questions, Ivy. Ban lies down on the ground because—in Agamben’s words—she’s “already dead.” I get that. The part of being an Indian woman or girl that is the enactment, over a lifetime, of a kind of social death. I want to think more about shame. with the playwright and graphic novelist, Susan Kim. She said: “Ban is eternal.” She said: “Ban is a stain that doesn’t wash off.” No matter how much a person was to write Ban, Ban never recedes— a persistence that resembles staining—the stain of a leaf on the sidewalk—but also, unlike a stain, never fades. Therefore, perhaps I am still working on Ban. At the moment, it [Ban] is being read by a publisher but I am aware—depth-like—that the publisher may
What are you working tonight i had a conversation on now?
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