Women, Inter-Racial Friendship and the Politics of Envy

Surrounded by Eurocentric mindsets kept me deeply confused

Aza Y. Alam
Fourth Wave
Published in
15 min readMay 8, 2024

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I was about to embark on a very long train journey across Zimbabwe and desperately needed a pen to think things through in my journal but . . . my Whyte feminist friend flatly refused to give me her cheap ballpoint, when she had easy access to more — and I did not.

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Aza Y. Alam
Fourth Wave

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.