Beautiful Transgressions

Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:53 - 8 Comments

Beautiful Transgressions | And Still We Rise: On the Violence of Marketisation in Higher Education

In the first of two articles on the violence of marketisation in higher education, Sara Motta ruptures the discourse which seeks to normalise these processes in order to "reject and rebel against the acts of misnaming and misshaping [as a means to] produce a different set of parameters" for re-imagining a critical education.

Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:50 - 3 Comments

Beautiful Transgressions | Our Blood is Red

In her latest column, Sara Motta reflects on women's relationship with their bodies, including their experience of menstruation. Looking back to history, she argues, we begin to unravel the processes of disconnection, separation and estrangement that devalue, silence and make shameful the female body and its cycles.

Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:00 - 0 Comments

Beautiful Transgressions | The Tide is Turning: from the Feminisation of Poverty to the Feminisation of Resistance

In her latest column, Sara Motta argues that the feminisation of poverty is becoming a feminisation of resistance, particularly in the Global South. What lessons can we learn from these struggles?

Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:09 - 0 Comments

Beautiful Transgressions For the Love of Heretics

"It remains easy to find the great leader able to rouse the masses with his beautiful speeches... yet beats his wife when he arrived home". In her new column, Sara Motta further explores the case for why politicising the personal is urgent and necessary.

Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, July 5, 2011 7:56 - 0 Comments

Beautiful Transgressions Popular education as a living project

In her new column, Sara Motta explores the remarkable work of La Máscara Theatre company – the only feminist theatre group in Colombia, and reflects on how its methods can be used in popular education for the building of global movements of resistance.

Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, June 14, 2011 0:00 - 4 Comments

Beautiful Transgressions After the Event?

As the wave of popular protests sweeps the globe, there is a growing recognition within activist movements of the exhaustion of traditional radical politics of ideological models and organisational vanguards. Sara Motta calls for a new politics in which people have control over decisions and processes affecting their lives.

Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, May 17, 2011 0:00 - 9 Comments

Beautiful Transgressions Who Cares?

Whose problem is it when a mother finds herself unable to take part in political resistance because she can't find childcare provision? In her new column, Sara Motta argues that a strong, inclusive movement cannot be built and sustained if we allow obstacles to female participation to be systematically ignored or trivialised.

Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 3, 2011 0:00 - 7 Comments

Beautiful Transgressions The Politics of the Female Face

What does it mean when a woman covers her face? Is it an act of submission? An act of defiance? Or something else entirely? From the masked Argentinian Piqueteras to the Burqa-ban controversy in France, Ceasefire columnist Sara Motta takes on the politics of the female face.

Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, April 5, 2011 15:40 - 3 Comments

Beautiful Transgressions Challenging ‘Politics as Normal’: Lessons from Chile

In this edition of Beautiful Transgressions, Ceasefire Magazine columnist Sara Motta reflects on the different forms of action during last week's TUC March in London, by revisiting the popular movements in Chile during the 1970s and 80s

Beautiful Transgressions, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, March 22, 2011 0:00 - 9 Comments

Beautiful Transgressions Beyond the Picket Line

As popular resistance against the cuts continues to grow, the University and College Union (UCU) have voted to take strike action this week over pensions, pay and job security. Ceasefire columnist Sara Motta argues that spaces of resistance can, and must, be built on both sides of the picket line.