The poems explore the meaning of the erosion of personhood through the cultural process of gendered becoming, and the ruptures between conforming and subversion, while attempting to reconstruct a self through normative gendered scripts and roles.
Despite the common belief that caste does not exist in Islam, the use of caste slurs in derogatory contexts and the prevalence of endogamy among Muslims in Kashmir suggest the presence of a systemic discriminatory caste system.
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