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ARCHANAA SEKER
Rights Activist | Researcher | Writer
Woman | Queer | Person of Colour | Person with a disability
EXPERIENCES I BRING
AS A STUDENT
International
PGT
Gender Studies (CGS)
Full-time
Indian, Global South
AS AN ACTIVIST
Campaigning, advocacy, strategy & management in
homelessness, mental health, disability, education, human rights, environmental justice, pollution, corporate accountability, gender and queer rights, sexuality, labour, media, arts and culture.
WHAT I BELIEVE IN
- Account4this SOAS
- Account for everything at SOAS
- Accessibility at SOAS
- Bridging BME Attainment Gap
- BME student representation
- Communication that is heard
- Case work and complaint redressal mechanisms
- Decolonisation,Democratisation, Deliberation Agendas
- Equal Opportunity
- Engaging with student opinions
- Furthering Liberation Officers’ work and creating Liberation Months
- Fighting Prevent
- Grants, bursaries, scholarships
- Governance structures that are transparent
- Health, especially mental health and well-being
- Holding management to account
- Inclusivity, Intersectionality,
- Justice for cleaners, workers, library staff
- Justice at SOAS
HOW I WILL MAKE MANIFEST
Asking uncomfortable questions
Being a feminist killjoy
Calling-in but willing to cause unhappiness
"Without community, there is no liberation.”
Within the SOAS community, LIBERATION is possible, and with it, EQUALITY!
#1 Co-President Equality and Liberation