Scaachi Koul

“Plenty of people take a gap year between high school and university to travel, or spend a summer back-packing through Europe to…

— Scaachi Koul

“Raisin in our only outlier for now: her mother is white, she lives in a white neighbourhood, she eats white food, she…

— Scaachi Koul

“The great irony of growing up is that it’s often once you leave your parents’ home that you understand them the most.…

— Scaachi Koul

“Our story was delightful in its mundanity: we met, it worked, we're trying.”

— Scaachi Koul

“If Indian weddings for Indian people are the furthest from “fun,” trips to India for Indian people are the furthest from “vacation.”…

— Scaachi Koul

“The mistake we make is in thinking rape isn’t premeditated, that it happens by accident somehow, that you’re drunk and you run…

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“There is no cowardice in removing yourself from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation . . . You shouldn't feel like you…

— Scaachi Koul

“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do…

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“And yet, being surveilled with the intention of assault or rape is practically mundane, it happens so often. It’s such an ingrained…

— Scaachi Koul

“Brown people rarely explain how anyone is related to anyone. You’re simply told that these people are your family and to treat…

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“I like being present in spaces where I am not welcome because you do not deserve to feel comfortable just because you're…

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“Fear always reaches a breaking point and turns into anxiety or rage, and I don't have enough storage space for more fear…

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“Fitting is a luxury rarely given to immigrants, or children of immigrants. We are stuck in emotional purgatory. Home, somehow, is always…

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“But most unsettling is how this time I notice my own fairness. I notice that while I might be a person of…

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“Mom used to tell me that white people don't understand us, would never understand us, even when they are well-meaning and patient...I…

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“It's not fun to have sympathy for the people who are trying to hurt you.”

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“She used to call me on the phone and scream, “I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, I AM GOING TO CHOP YOU INTO…

— Scaachi Koul

“People allow India to exist only in two versions: In the first, everything is too beautiful to be encapsulated, women are swarthy…

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“It changes you, when you see someone similar to you doing the thing you might want to do yourself. That kind of…

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“I knew they were my people, but it didn't feel like it. I was pushing against any first-generation narrative, while all the…

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“You know what would be fun,” our school’s administration likely thought, huffing glue out of an old sock. “What if we make…

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“I have never been this white anywhere in the world. I've never had the most obvious, most useful kind of privilege as…

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“I'm not white, no, but I'm just close enough that I could be, and just far enough that you know I'm not.…

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“Like farts and the incorrect retellings of classic literature, racism is a lot cuter when it comes out of a little girl.”

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“When Sweetu wasn’t being reduced to merely existing as a bride, as a piece of meat to be handled and prodded, to…

— Scaachi Koul