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This is @YasMohammedXX. As a child, Yasmine was hung upside down in her family's garage by a meat hook so the bottoms of her feet could be whipped for violating the tenets of #Islam. This was in Vancouver, Canada. 🇨🇦
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At 13, Yasmine courageously told police and social services what was happening at home. The judge ruled that #corporalpunishment wasn't against the law and that due to her family's "culture," her punishment might be more severe than in the average Canadian household.
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Yasmine writes in #Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam:
"In their effort to be 'culturally sensitive,' my country ended up being viciously bigoted toward me instead. I knew that if I'd come from a family of white parents, I would have been protected."
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"In their effort to be 'culturally sensitive,' my country ended up being viciously bigoted toward me instead. I knew that if I'd come from a family of white parents, I would have been protected."
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This arrived today. The book is an attempt to present a historically-embedded account of western childhood and how the co-constitutive logics of capital and motherhood have shaped its modern understanding. @VSLIIMA
#childhood #education #motherhood
#childhood #education #motherhood
"Situated at the confluence of children's nature and childhood's nurture, mothers are those who most often held personally responsible for navigating the dense undergrowth of competing and confusing narratives and expectations of childhood." #childhood
"Three elements- childhood's pliability, maternal accountability for children and children's subjecthood- entangle and tussle with one another in a variety of ways to produce a 'moral architecture' of childhood."
#childhood #motherhood #maternallife #education
#childhood #motherhood #maternallife #education
