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I am dreading the amping up of horrific sexism and anti-Blackness (that is already being aimed at her) by Hindu far right.
She stands as everything they can’t stand. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/8/19/21376798/read-watch-kamala-harris-acceptance-speech-vice-president-nomination-democratic-national-convention
She stands as everything they can’t stand. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/8/19/21376798/read-watch-kamala-harris-acceptance-speech-vice-president-nomination-democratic-national-convention
I remember ‘aspirational’ upper caste desis constantly warning my parents ‘beti bigad jayegi’ (daughter will go astray) when I went to uni in the US.
Desi women breaking free...and marrying non-desis is THE upper caste desi nightmare. And then add anti-Blackness!
Desi women breaking free...and marrying non-desis is THE upper caste desi nightmare. And then add anti-Blackness!
An ex asked me ages ago why ‘Indian men emigrate but Indian women defect’?
It was hard explaining how Hindu savarna heteropatriarchy needs women to ‘stay in line’ and once we break free, there is rarely a way or reason to go back
It was hard explaining how Hindu savarna heteropatriarchy needs women to ‘stay in line’ and once we break free, there is rarely a way or reason to go back
Harris’s mother (and her desi family) is more radical and revolutionary than most (non-desi) Americans understand.
And that is partly why Kamala has been my fav from the start It isn’t just policy and politics, it is her embodied self.
And that is partly why Kamala has been my fav from the start It isn’t just policy and politics, it is her embodied self.
Sometimes to exist is not only to resist, but to be a revolution....
