Back then when I was writing about the dead bodies on European beaches I failed to make one connection that has become painfully clear today: the beach as the site where European white, heteronormative patriarchy inhabits our bodies both in life and in death. The site where the cis gender female body is meant to be seen under the conditions approved by the male gaze.

Don’t throw sand over my eyes. On the burkini ban and European cruelty — Medium

I wrote something about the burkini ban in European beaches and the forceful compliance with white supremacist patriarchy.


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