Composite illustration by Leea Contractor
It’s confirmed: however dire the events that take place in my country, they are less important than what happens in the world of my white American friends.
Let me lay out the context.
The day before the US election results were announced, a blanket anxiety lay over my social media over a possible Trump win. I was unfazed, and apparently, not the only one: The Guardian published an article on the same day from a familiar name. “The rest of the world,” wrote the ever-unapologetic Mohammad Hanif, “has had it with US presidents. Trump or otherwise.”