Kasim Ali speaks to AnOther about the lack of diversity in the British publishing world and the importance of seeing yourself in literature
, only to then add “The South Asian urge to delete this tweet because it’s too boastful” four minutes later. His immersion in the publishing world doesn’t necessarily mean Ali is thrilled by what he sees around him though: debates on whether men are writing enough books is one thing, but another is the lack of men like Ali being published.
“I wanted to write about anti-Blackness in the South Asian community. It’s rampant. And I find that there’s a certain hypocrisy among Muslims when talking about it” – Kasim AliKasim Ali: People will often lean on a famous story about the first Muslim being a Black slave called Bilal, or a phrase from one of Hadid’s scriptures which talks about how we’re one human race at the end of it all, to be like ‘we aren’t racist’.
Kasim Ali: Yeah. Birmingham, Nottingham and Bradford are places that mean a lot to me. I guess I was writing about the experience I had at university, which was pretentious conversations on ‘what is culture’ and ‘who am I’, while also… smoking some weed. A little like Nur does in the book, confronting his internal biases. So the cliched ‘first-time author writes about themselves’ model. But there’s three dudes in this book, you don’t know which one is me.
“I want to show that you can be a South Asian softboi, and that you can be the kind of person who falls in love with someone and expresses that emotion” – Kasim Ali
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