[Sehefac] Jade is in the LA Times!

[Tabassum Khan]

She is brilliant!!! As always.

Tabassum "Ruhi" Khan
Associate Professor Media and Cultural Studies
University of California Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521

Tel: 951 827 1389

Beyond Hybridity and Fundamentalism: Emerging Muslim Identity in Globalized
India - Oxford University Press (2015)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/beyond-hybridity-and-fundamentalism-9780199453610?cc=ca&lang=en&



On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 8:31 PM Dana Simmons via Sehefac <
sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Dear SEHE affiliates,
> SEHE faculty member Jade Sasser makes a timely and critical intervention
> in this article, "Boiling Point: Is it ethical to have children in the
> face of climate change?
> <https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2024-08-29/boiling-point-is-it-ethical-to-have-children-in-the-face-of-climate-change-boiling-point>
> "
>
> “What Gen Z tends to know, more so than other generations, is that
> population growth doesn’t cause climate change — that consumption of
> resources, production of oil and gas, cutting down of forests, these things
> cause climate change, and they are not necessarily driven by human
> numbers,” Sasser said. “They’re driven by politics, policies and
> inequitable consumption patterns in the world."
> ..."Women, of course, have never been alone in creating families — but the
> duty, the burden, the responsibility, the questions of agency, have always
> been unevenly and unfairly placed onto women,” she said. “And it is
> absolutely not a coincidence, and highly ironic, that these issues are
> coming together in such an important way — requiring women to take on an
> undue burden around these questions of whether or not to have children in
> this salient moment, and being mocked for it by people like JD Vance
> referring to women as as ‘childless cat ladies’ if they opt not to have
> kids.”
>
> Thank you for making this point, Jade!
> Dana
> --
> Dana Simmons
> Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and
> Health Equity
> Cooperating Faculty, Department of History
> University of California, Riverside
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