Brown Women Saving Brown Women — Setting New Narratives of an ‘Acceptable Voice’

Abstract

Based on gender-centric issues, this paper identifies ‘the other’ as women either as colonial subjects or as Muslim women in the modern world. In this definition of ‘the other’, I contend that ‘the other’, aren’t and weren’t voiceless and the inability to acknowledge these voices is because of the existing version of what is an ‘acceptable voice’. This definition of an ‘acceptable voice’ is supported through the colonial quest supported by imperial feminism and knowledge production. Hence, to acknowledge the voices of ‘the other’, the meaning of ‘acceptable voice’ needs to be decolonized.