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Zarna Joshi

Proof I’m right

They wouldn’t hate me so much if they weren’t afraid of me

Jul 8, 2022

A picture on a beach with the ocean behind and rocks rising from the shoreline. In the center foreground stands a brown-skinned woman on a rock on the beach. She is wearing a grey dress, sunglasses, and her hair is braided. She is holding kelp in each hand and wielding them like whips.

Jul 8, 2022

Zarna Joshi

Leftist erasure of history

There’s no reason to lie but the left does it regularly

Nov 27, 2023

Screenshot Map of the Iron Curtain by BigSteve. This was how Europe was carved up after WWII between the Allies and the Soviet Union, setting the stage for all the European conflicts of today. An arbitrary border was drawn from the very northern point of east Germany all the way down to the southern point of the eastern border of Italy. Everything east of that border was controlled by the Soviet Union and is indicated in red. Everything west of that is indicated in purple.

Nov 27, 2023

Zarna Joshi

What the Empire doesn’t want you to know

Thoughts for India’s Independence Day

Aug 15, 2023

What the Empire doesn’t want you to know

Aug 15, 2023

Zarna Joshi

Tokens

The systems of oppression don’t change, they just rebrand. One of the ways they rebrand is with tokens.

Jul 18, 2023

A color picture of an animated child character in an adult TV series. The child has dark skin, dark hair, is wearing a puce top with a giant “T” on it. He is shown standing with a white and grey checked background.

Jul 18, 2023

Zarna Joshi

Feedback for “Holistic Healers” and “Wellness Practitioners”

When Wellness is sickening

Apr 25, 2023

A white woman in a white sports bra and white leggings sitting in classic Hindu lotus pose. There is a white diamond shape superimposed on her forehead. Behind her is a golden tantra design. The background is beige. There is a scarlet red circle along with a two scarlet red lines crossing diagonally over the entire picture.

Apr 25, 2023

Zarna Joshi

Smashup Episode 5

Are you on the wrong side of History?

Mar 24, 2023

Smashup Episode 5

Mar 24, 2023

Zarna Joshi

Shmashup Episode 4

Anti-Blackness and Cultural Appropriation

Feb 2, 2023

Shmashup Episode 4

Feb 2, 2023

Zarna Joshi

The Truth of US Supremacy

Trigger Warning Facts Americans won’t like

Jan 3, 2023

A picture of the US flag with 50 white stars in the top left blue corner. There are 13 stripes of alternate red and white on the rest of the flag.

Jan 3, 2023

Zarna Joshi

Shmashup Episode 3

Open Letter to Anti-War Trump Supporters

Dec 16, 2022

Shmashup Episode 3

Dec 16, 2022

Zarna Joshi

One Year Later

Community responses to my Hindu Colonial Trauma series

Dec 12, 2022

A blue-skinned figure with long black hair dances in an ocean of dark turquoise water. They are wearing red and orange fabric that flies out around their body. The frothy white and turquoise waves rise up on the front right. A saffron and yellow colored sunset is directly behind them and glows around their body.

Dec 12, 2022

Zarna Joshi

Zarna Joshi

Writer, organizer, spiritual activist, anti-imperialist, decolonizing smasher of the patriarchy, zarnajoshi.com, zarnajoshi.com/blog

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