Itâs really important for older desi girls to support young and naive desi girls, even the girls with hairy arms and upper lips, the ones with unkempt monobrows and visible happy trails, girls who get nervous talking to strangers, the ones who arenât fashion savvy in an eastern or western sense, girls who wear clothes too big or too small, girls who arenât good at STEM fields, girls who canât dance bhangra or garba, whose makeup is all wrong, who use Fair & Lovely because theyâve internalized a lot of shit, girls who use haldi and chandan for the same reason, girls who eat rice with their hands, girl who donât do extracurriculars, girls with thick accents, ALL OF THEM.
Ultimately, it doesnât matter whether the things theyâre doing are for political statements, or because their families are restrictive, or because they want to. We have to support our younger desi sisters even when theyâre not conforming to the âtumblr aestheticâ or when theyâre not socially conscious. We are the ones who have to teach them.
I know thereâs a lot of pressure on us to have the ultimate âcoolâ squad of desi girls so non-desi folks canât say shit about us and at least we fit in somewhere. But more often then not, this leaves young and vulnerable girls who feel/look unattractive or awkward too intimidated to approach us and they get left out.
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