Who is that remarkable green-eyed "Afghan girl"? It is the Pashtun/Aryan Sharbat Gula |
Afghan children attend school in the Marawara district, 2020 (Lorenzo Tugnoli/Washington Post) |
The Biggest American F*ck Ups That Screwed Afghanistan (thedailybeast.com) |
US loves its state killers...until they get home. |
- Resurrecting Afghanistan: Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed (Rafia Zakaria/The Daily Beast)
- Huge corporate profits for US war profiteers (The Intercept)
Taliban says it will be more tolerant toward females. Some fear otherwise (MSN.com) |
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Against White FeminismAgainst White Feminism (Rafia Zakaria) |
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon.
They espouse sexual satisfaction and liberation, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of the movement itself in whiteness and speaking over Black and Brown women in an effort to uphold privilege and perceived cultural superiority.
An American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher, Rafia Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism in Against White Feminism, centering women of color in this book.
It is a transformative overview and counter-manifesto to white feminism’s global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist ideals.
The Dark Defile: Britain's Invasion of Afghan... |
It also covers the conflation of sexual liberation as the “sum total of empowerment,” as Zakaria follows in the tradition of intersectional feminist forebears Kimberlé Crenshaw, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde.
Zakaria ultimately refutes and reimagines the apolitical aspirations of white feminist empowerment in this staggering, radical critique, with Black and Brown feminist thought at the forefront.
RAFIA ZAKARIA: director of Amnesty Int'l USA, columnist for DAWN, writer, PhD candidate in political philosophy featured in NY Times, Dissent, The Progressive, Guernica, and on Al Jazeera English, BBC, KPFA Berkeley, The Hindu, NPR.
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