Where does Central Asia fit into critical feminist theories? In response to a recent series on feminist subjectivities in Central Asian Studies, I would like to add the perspective of a Central Asian graduate student of gender studies in Europe to the wide variety of feminist voices in the collection.
First off, I would like to acknowledge my privilege: I am able to study gender for my Master’s degree in European universities. This opens a whole new world of feminist academia in English which I am free to explore.
However, along with the thrill of being able to study what I am passionate about comes a certain violence of erasure, as I am left constantly searching for my identity in feminist academia.
