Indians and B*tches Not Allowed

White people are real. Everyone else is atmosphere. Most people learn this early. Few say it out loud. This book says it out loud - and then asks the question nobody in the West wants asked: what if the contempt the modern world holds for the East is the same contempt patriarchy holds for women? Not similar. The same. The same fear, the same machinery, the same need to dominate whatever it cannot control. The East is the feminine of the world. And the West has spent five hundred years trying to civilize it - for exactly the reason a certain kind of man cannot tolerate a woman who knows something he doesn't. Ranging from the witch trials to the wellness industry, from the women erased out of scripture to the burnout quietly hollowing out the most liberated generation in history, Ahmed Iqbal traces a single mechanism running underneath all of it. Cool, precise, and unsparing, this is a book that names what you have felt for years but never had the words for. It is not a comfortable book. It does not flatter you. It does not hand you a five-step practice or tell you you're a goddess. It tells you the truth, and trusts you to do something with it. If you have ever sat in a room, fully present and somehow not counted - this book is for you. The rest can keep reading the version they were given.

Pagina's: 195, Paperback, Independently published