She suffers during their entire time away because "how are you supposed to relax when the people who taught you to be afraid of the world, to be alert, to be suspicious, have vanished without a trace."Īs a Canadian of Punjabi heritage, the chapter on being hairy was familiar ground for me. They don't call or text to let their daughter know they've arrived safely. In a hilarious reversal, she worries about her parents when they finally take a vacation after a decade. She captures how the anxiety of that rupture instills fear into parents who in turn instill that fear and anxiety into their children. The rupture and pain that immigration causes runs deep through the book. Koul was born and raised in Alberta to Kashmiri parents who immigrated from India. Homeland Security border guard: Why do brown mothers not have fingerprints? They've been burned off from a lifetime of making rotis on a hot griddle. She writes about everything from attending her cousin Sweetu's nuptials ("There are prison sentences that run shorter than Indian weddings"), to the difficulty of bringing a white boyfriend home after living in sin for so long, to answering the eternal question that has vexed many a U.S. Her wide-ranging book of essays touches upon many subjects – sexism, racism, feminism and culture – in a deeply personal and humorous narrative. The solution, she says, is more than just "fixing" Twitter but "correcting human behaviour." "We are deeply afraid of making marginalized voices stronger, because we think it makes privileged ones that much weaker," she writes. (He has since been kicked off Twitter for encouraging this type of vitriol.) Koul took a mental-health break and deactivated her account. Despite trying to reason with her trolls, things spiralled out of control when Twitter's "fabulous supervillain" Milo Yiannopoulos's 168,000 followers unleashed the now clichéd torrent of hate and harassment that the site has become problematic for. I block people if they complain about my grammar, but Koul is made of sterner stuff.
It comes as no surprise when Koul recounts the harrowing days that followed in her new book One Day We'll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter. When women don't agree with men, we don't exhaustively tweet about maiming and murdering them, while describing an imaginative but precarious future for their genitals in 140 characters. I first came across Scaachi Koul, the BuzzFeed editor, from her infamous tweet for soliciting pitches from diverse writers: "IF YOU'RE A WHITE MAN UPSET THAT WE ARE LOOKING MOSTLY FOR NON-WHITE NON-MEN I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU GO WRITE FOR MACLEAN'S." I laughed, but, unfortunately for Koul, white men did not.
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