Aza Y. Alam
1 min readMar 16, 2021

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This is terribly disturbing, the suggestion tht white folk in general have no conscience. I don’t want to believe this. I am surrounded by White people, whether as neighbours, managers, colleagues, people I thought weere my friends, 'comrades', in the feminist movement and anti-Nazi League. When I look at events across a wide expanse of time, situation and contexts, when I look at how most of these people I gve my trust to, tiptoed away, ghosting me and then I realized I ahd been completely abandoned, without discussion, without any open disagreement over anything, they withdrew. When I analyse the particular situation it was always due to their unexpeessed, racialised expectation (which I was really unaware of) that I would defer to them. Also, my receiving admiration or respect from some direction for being fitter, prettier, more knowledgeable, more articulate, more of artistic, multi-skilled academic/artist/popular a teacher than they were, unleashed some variety of a torrent of harm from them, towards me.

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Aza Y. Alam
Aza Y. Alam

Written by Aza Y. Alam

Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.

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