Aza Y. Alam
Feb 21, 2024

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This poem reminds me of an article I wrote, comparing my mother's experience of marriage and family life, with that of a Whyte English woman in their autumnal years of life, as elders. I mentioned how my mother was honoured, and very content, while my Whyte friend was very lonely and not receiving much attention form her children....

I was surprised by the level of blowback I recovered from whyte feminists in the comments.

What I realised ws that the assumption of superiority as a culture is so ingrained, even the example of one happy arranged marriage was too much for some whyte women to take !

https://medium.com/fourth-wave/a-tale-of-two-marriages-12f697b82bce

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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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