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LAHORE: Lawyer, journalist and author Rafia Zakaria says one is a white feminist if one is propagating white-centre discourse and solutions and in the post-colonial Pakistan, it’s that aspect of whiteness which is very important and worth considering.
In a digital talk as a part of the Lahore Literary Festival on Saturday, when she was asked by Nayab Jan about what is white feminism and feminists, she said, “I am not talking about a white person who is feminist. What I am interested in is that whiteness is a particular kind of privilege that can exert dominance over others. In Pakistan, most of us are brown and in the Pakistani context it’s important to note how whiteness as a privilege works to suppress our indigenous narratives and solutions.”
Ms Zakaria said the British created a class of brown people in Pakistan who were doing the dirty work for them.
Divulging more on the question of white feminism, the subject of her latest book, Against White Feminism, she said a white feminist is the person who was interested in continuing to centre whiteness and use its privilege to dominate and subjugate other discourses.
When asked about the manifestation and aspects of white feminism, she said in western societies, one experienced whiteness constantly as whiteness defined i