Hereโs a spreadsheet of orgs working on the ground as India experiences this terrible covid wave. Many are accepting foreign donations. https://t.co/Rto1UqoPSQ
Then came Idi Amin, and the rampant xenophobia made the diaspora flee. Khoja matriarchs, now twice removed from the land of their ancestors, took their cooking westward.
The type of Khoja Ismaili food that I write about originated in Gujarat and migrated with its people across the Indian Ocean, where it became influenced by East African ingredients, giving rise to new kind of deliciousness. Think cassava sprinkled with chile and lime!
When the British looked to them for text material, what was "Brahminism" became "Hinduism" writ large. Brahmins were only too gleeful, and why wouldn't they be, placed as they were at the apex of this new religion.
Modern Hinduism is a British colonial concept, created in concert with Brahmins, who are at the "apex" of the caste system. The word "Hindoo" in fact, is of Persian origin, meaning a person who lives in the Indus valley.
I wrote for @Slate about how Trump's plan to cancel birthright citizenship had been tried before, and the catastrophic human rights abuses that ensued:
https://t.co/bMc19MzAz6
I began this year writing for @WearYourVoice about how, in the saturated space of food writing, we've lost sight of just how political food really is:
https://t.co/JxSa2S7yDY
This history of deliberate racialization still persists, notably through the weaponization of white tears. This history of deliberate racialization still persists, notably through the weaponization of white tears.
Fascism doesnโt mushroom overnight. It requires a cultural ecosystemโa primordial soup, if you willโthat enables these ideologies to flourish. This culture is soft power, which is then weaponized in order to create or actualize a political movement: fascism.
โBe the bigger person!โ โMend things or else youโll feel bad when xyz dies!โ Etc. NO SIR. NO MAโAM. I will NOT feel bad for not being the bigger person. I donโt want to be the bigger person anymore. I JUST WANT TO BE A PERSON.
When I told some members of my family THE WAY SOME OF THEM TREATED ME...there was so little compassion, so much centering of themselves, such TEXTBOOK gaslighting/derailing/distracting and then shaming ME for not wanting to reach out to people who had actively made things WORSE.