Zarmeen Fatima

The Colonial Haunting of Dark Academia: An Apartheid of Knowledge in the Ivory Tower “The real aim of colonialism was to control the people’s wealth; what they produced, how they produced it, and how it was distributed; to control, in other words, the entire realm of the language of real life. Colonialism imposed its control…

What does it mean, truly, to be the brown girl who has ‘made it’? Is it when we’re accepted into a historically white prestigious university? When we secure a job offer from a company whose leadership is a far lighter hue than our own? Or is it when the elusive taste of the Immigrant Dream…