Rama
This is in response to Hafta X. As one of the subscribers critical of Sekhri’s commentary on trans issues, I think his framing on why the “woke discourse” makes him uncomfortable is much more nuanced today. But I had some reservations on Jayashree’s and Shardool’s tendency to homogenise the western world as uniformly white and as former colonisers. Race is a social construct and, historically, people of different European countries were not always considered white (Irish, Italian, etc). Some scholars believe Ukraine has traits of a postcolonial state itself so casually dubbing it as part of the white, colonial world might be problematic.
