You’re Woke but I’m Wokerest

Kimia Eslah
5 min readAug 28, 2021
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I’m surrounded by intelligent and compassionate white people. They are woke and ambitious to make the world a better place.

See where I’m going with this? Okay, slow your roll and let me set the scene.

It’s my friend’s birthday, and we’re at brunch on the patio of a local diner, playfully relating the week’s domestic horror stories, as the middle-aged do. In attendance: the woman of the…

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Kimia Eslah

Feminist writer and a queer woman of colour. Author of Sister Seen, Sister Heard (2022) and The Daughter Who Walked Away (2019). www.kimiaeslah.com