Commentary
China's Tibet was represented at the forum by an immaculately dressed delegation housed in a stunning handcrafted traditional tent, imperialism clothed in the trappings of an indigenous culture. Other Tibetan women were present, selling handcrafted silver jewellery in order to meet the cost of attendance. At more than one workshop I heard of the forced sterilisations and other abuses of women's human rights meted out by the occupying Chinese in Tibet.

Is any place safe when you live with war or foreign occupation? Does home become a battleground or a site of resistance? Does one ever feel at home? Or is it that home exists only between episodes of abuse while one can momentarily overlook what just happened.