Muslim-Canadian Women’s Enunciations: Sofia Baig’s Performative Identities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Sofia Baig’s debut album Daughter of Sand (2009) the contested experience of Muslim-Canadian women’s identity is explored and complicated through artistic enunciations of spoken word art. Within mainstream and popular culture, the Muslim woman’s body has been a prominent terrain embodying the West’s “Other,” a space upon which many prejudices and preconceptions are mapped out and propagated. This is why, through the homogenizing discourses of mainstream media, Islam, with its various cultural and spiritual aspects, has been increasingly constructed as the violent “Other” and the oppressed Muslim woman as its poster girl. Despite real instances of oppression against Muslim woman which are shaped by various social, political and historical aspects that cannot be simplistically reduced to religious practices, what interests me in this paper is the representations of Muslim women and Muslim-Canadian women artists’ resistance and engagement with the prevailing stereotype of the victimized Muslim woman. What is alarmingly disconcerting about such a victimized image is that it robs these women of their subjectivity, reviving Orientalist discourses of “Othering” which objectified these women as exemplified in past nineteenth century Orientalist discourse and art.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.042 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".