Anthropology PhD candidate @Penn studying urban infrastructures, cities, and citizenship.
Jun 25, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Pervez Hoodbhoy is a turd. Anyone who disagrees is also a turd. Those who platform him are also turds.
600 ppl dead. He decides to invoke every last racial and Islamophobic trope of the fanatic, horny brown man who is desperate to get to Europe so he can access white women.
Not to mention his nauseating classism (h/t @NidaKirmani) . Elite brown ppl graft racialised tropes of the horny/rapist brown/black men onto working class brown class men who are a threat to elite brown/white women.
Aug 3, 2021 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
My Bari Ammi (maternal grandmother) is over 90 years old. I was sitting with her today and she started telling me about the early years of her marriage. She was born and raised in Jallundhar - in a big house with 5-6 rooms. As a pampered younger child she never had to...
...take on much domestic labor. Things changed when she was married at a young age and moved to a village near Nankana Sahib (which would go on to become part of Pakistan). Used to living in comfort in a city, she felt utterly miserable in her new home...
