Stories of stolen lives: one narrative, shared by many

Presentación en el Primer encuentro latinoamericano de prestadores públicos de abortos seguros y legales. CLACAI; CEDES, Buenos Aires, 11 y 12 de Agosto de 201

Seeing the Sorrow Anew: Recapturing the Reality of Suffering Through Srebrenica

Those who know death know mourning. Those who know mourning know the meaning of empty spaces that we all wish had stayed filled. But do we, or even can we, as the few members of this society who habitually reflect upon the tragedies and triumphs of the past, fully understand the immensity of the suffering we dwell upon while wandering our battlefields? [excerpt

Stolen wages, stolen lives: A critical analysis of the fair workweek policy

Unpredictable and irregular work schedules are a well-known aspect of labor conditions in the retail and food service sectors of the US economy (Lambert, Fugiel, & Henly, 2014). This issue is now being addressed by advocates of what is commonly known as the Fair Workweek policy. Despite the variance among the policies that have passed in different municipalities, the goals of this policy are threefold: first, to provide clear guidelines for the scheduling of workers, second, to promote wage stability, and third, to generate a more socially just work-life balance for workers these industries. This paper aims to investigate what protections subsequent versions of this policy attempts to create in relation to what workers in these industries are experiencing. In order to investigate this burgeoning policy initiative, in-depth semi-structured interviews with retail and food service workers were conducted over the summer of 2017 in the Southern California region. While initial findings suggest that features of the Fair Workweek policy can lead to more stable wages, there are aspects of social reproduction that the policy has not or cannot address

Maquiladora Slavery

This article is part of the collection of writings of Marshall (Mike) Westfall, retired autoworker from General Motors in Flint, Michigan (1964-1994) and activist critic of the auto industry restructuring that led to devastating job losses. It originally appeared online in The Westfall Papers.[http://michaelwestfall.tripod.com/id128.html, accessed 12/14/2011

You\u27ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library (2006)

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun!https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/summerreads/1007/thumbnail.jp

Asthmatic and Alone: How Books Became My World

Undergraduate Winner: 2nd Place, 2013. 26th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition

The Incarcerated Female Subject(ivity): Resisting Gendered Trauma

This paper addresses the issue of gender, trauma and resistance within the Moroccan prison apparatuses during ―Years of Lead‖ (1956-1999). Moroccan female detainees have challenged the view that they were passive. They have aligned themselves up with the resistant voices to meet the horizons and expectations of post-colonialism—as an emancipatory project. This paper is premised upon the analysis of the female testimonial writings left by some of the leading female voices during the ―Years of Lead‖ in Morocco: Mustapha Kamal, Susan Slyomovics and Fatna El Bouih‘s Talk of Darkness, (2008), Khadija Marouazi‘s The Biography of Ash (2000) and Michèle Fitoussi and Malika Oufkir‘s Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, (2001). Following François Lyotard (1995) and Barbara Harlow (1987), this paper conceives of these writings as a form of resistance. Writing and revealing what Cathy Caruth refers to as ―insidious trauma‖ in her 1995 book Trauma: Explorations in Memory is essential for the recovery of the postcolonial subjects from the trauma of the arbitrary and political incarceration. The female resisting subjectivities are reconstructed in their prison writings. In so doing, female political prisoners resist what Gayatri Spivak refers to as ―epistemic violence‖ in her 1988 text ―Can the subaltern Speak?‖ that Moroccan society exerts on female subjectivities. By articulating their voices of trauma and resistance to the patriarchal discourse (re)shaping and reshuffling their subjectivities, Moroccan female prisoners foreground a feminist/political consciousness. Finally, this paper suggests that these female prison writings should be parts of the Moroccan postcolonial feminist theorising.Keywords: Trauma, resistance, gender, Years of Lead, prison writings, Moroccan Cultural Studie

Spartan Daily, March 18, 2008

Volume 130, Issue 31https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10457/thumbnail.jp