Saira Rao

 

Saira Sameera Rao (an Haife shi a watan Yuni 12, 1974) yar gwagwarmayar siyasar Amurka ce, marubuciya, mawallafi, kuma tsohon lauyan Wall Street kuma mai gabatar da talabijin. Ita ce wacce ta kafa Race2Dinner, A cikin Wannan Taren Media, da Haven, kuma ta yi fice sosai a cikin 2018 lokacin da ta tsaya takarar Majalisa, ta sha kashi a hannun dimokuradiyya Diana DeGette a firamare .

Rayuwar farko da aiki

Ba'amurke ɗan Indiya na biyu, Rao an haife shi a Richmond, Virginia, 'yar Dr. Sybil Philomena "Greenie" Rao da Dr. Jaikar Rao. </link> ne daga Kudancin Indiya .

Ta sami digiri na farko a tarihi daga Jami'ar Virginia a 1996 kuma ta ci gaba da aiki a matsayin ɗan jarida kuma mai gabatar da talabijin na ƙungiyar CBS affiliate WUSA a Washington DC da Fox News affiliate WSVN a Miami . [5] A cikin 2002 ta sami JD daga Makarantar Shari'a ta Jami'ar New York kuma ta ɗauki aikin malanta a ƙarƙashin alkali na Kotun Kotu na uku Dolores Sloviter tsakanin 2002 da 2003 a Philadelphia . [5] [6] Ta kasance abokiyar tarayya a cikin dokar kamfanoni a Cleary Gottlieb . [7] [8]

Novel

A cikin 2007, an buga littafin farko na Saira Rao. Chambermaid ya shafi wata dalibar da ta kammala karatun lauya a kwanan nan mai suna Sheila Raj wacce ma’aikaciyar shari’a ce ga alkali na uku Helga Friedman, wanda aka bayyana a matsayin “sociopathic, kisan kai, mai shari’a na bipolar” da kuma “mai guba mai guba.” Rao ta kasance magatakarda na shari'a ga alkali Dolores Sloviter na uku, kuma wasu haruffa a cikin littafin ana ganin suna da takwarorinsu na duniya. Rao ya fara rubuta shi yayin da yake aiki a Cleary Gottlieb, amma ya bar kamfanin a watan Nuwamba 2006 bayan sun koyi batun littafin. Don lauya ya tattauna alƙali ba tare da jin daɗi ba, ko da a cikin almara, an ɗauke shi aƙalla sabon abu kuma Rao ya danganta sha'awarta ta rubuta littafin a wani bangare don magance waccan lambar ta shuru. Sloviter da kanta ta kawar da batun, tana mai cewa "watakila na sami ma'aikatan shari'a kusan ɗari, kuma ba abin mamaki ba ne cewa ɗaya ko biyu sun ƙi ni" da "Ban karanta ba. Ban yi niyya ba. Na gaske. ban damu ba OK?"

Kirkus Reviews ya bayyana Chambermaid a matsayin "marasa asali", yana mai cewa "aƙalla Miranda Priestly ya kasance mai daɗi". Carlin Romano na The Philadelphia Inquirer ya bayyana shi a matsayin "mai ban sha'awa sosai, sau da yawa mai hankali, akai-akai mai ban dariya kuma a wasu lokuta yana da ban tsoro". Paula Reed Ward na Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ta gano cewa "ko da labaran suna da wuyar gaskatawa, sau da yawa ana rubuta su da irin wannan sauƙi, iska mai sauƙi, wanda ba sa yin komai sai dariya".

A cikin wata hira ta 2013 Rao ya ce akwai kuma yarjejeniyar fim da aka haɗa da Chambermaid, kodayake ba a shirya fim ɗin ba har zuwa 2021.

Rao ta ce littafinta na biyu, abin tunawa da ake kira Broken News, game da "kwarewarta game da wariyar launin fata a cikin sabbin kafofin watsa labaru", za a buga shi a cikin bazara 2020.

A Cikin Wannan atare

A cikin 2013, Rao da kawarta daga Jami'ar Virginia kwanakin, ɗan wasan barkwanci kuma mai daukar ma'aikata Carey Albertine, sun kafa A cikin Wannan Tare da Watsa Labarai, kamfanin buga littattafai ya yi niyya don fadada kewayon littattafan yara game da 'yan mata, da bambancinsu ta launin fata da sauran sharuddan. Kamfanin yana aiki da tsarin gauraya don samun lakabi, wani lokaci yana karɓar ƙaddamarwa da kuma ba da izini ga marubuta don rubuta labaru bisa ra'ayoyin da aka samar a cikin gida. Da farko an buga taken akan buƙatu maimakon samarwa da yawa. Daga baya, Rao ya ba da rahoton nasarar sayar da littattafai ga wasu gidajen buga littattafai kamar Simon &amp; Schuster, maimakon buga littattafai kai tsaye.

A cikin Wannan Tare yana da hannu a cikin littafin Duk da haka, Mun dage, tarin gajerun kasidu guda 48 tare da gaban Amy Klobuchar .

Tsaya takarar Majalisa

A cikin 2018 Rao ya yi takara da Wakili Diana DeGette a cikin firamare na Democratic don gundumar majalisa ta 1st ta Colorado . Ta samu goyon baya daga, da sauransu, Andrew Yang, Justice Democrats PAC, da Buie Seawell, tsohon shugaban jam'iyyar Colorado Democratic Party, amma ta rasa kashi 32% na farko zuwa 68%. A cikin kwata na farko, Rao ta sami ƙarin kuɗi ($ 250,000) fiye da DeGette ($ 240,000) don kamfen ɗin ta. DeGette a ƙarshe ya kashe ƙarin, yana ba da rahoton kashe $720,000 idan aka kwatanta da $415,000 na Rao.

Bayan wata guda, Rao ya wallafa a shafinsa na twitter "Gajere kuma doguwar amsa: YES", a mayar da martani ga wani furucin New York Times da masanin falsafa George Yancy ya yi mai taken "Shin zan yi watsi da fararen fata?". Ta ce barazanar da ta samu a matsayin martani ya sa danginta ba su da lafiya kuma dole ne ta bar Colorado na wani dan lokaci.

Ra'ayi

Rao ta dauki kanta a matsayin mai ci gaba . Kafin zaben Donald Trump, Rao ya dade yana goyon bayan jam'iyyar Democrat musamman Hillary Clinton, wacce ta sha kaye a zaben. Bayan haka, Rao ta ji takaicin shugabancin jam’iyyar, wanda ta ke ganin ta kasa ba da amsa yadda ya kamata ko kuma ta saurari damuwar matan da ba farare ba. A cikin 2017, ta rubuta wani ra'ayi ga HuffPost game da dalilanta na "raguwa" da jam'iyyar. Bayan haka, ta ce bayan da ta yi la’akari da goyon bayanta ga Clinton, ta “ji dadin”, amma ta ce ba ita ce jam’iyyar da ta rabu da ita ba, kamar yadda ta fada a baya, a’a, jam’iyyar Dimokuradiyya ta kafa.

Ta yi takara a zaben firamare na 2018. A cikin op-ed Teen Vogue ta bayyana babban burinta na yin takara a matsayin inganta da cimma "daidaita - launin fata, zamantakewa, da tattalin arziki ", tare da matsayi na siyasa ciki har da sake fasalin dokar bindiga, hanyar zama dan kasa, da kuma rage tasiri. na kudin kamfani a siyasa .

A wani lokaci Rao ta yi kakkausar suka ga 'yan jam'iyyar Democrat wadanda ba ta daukar su a matsayin masu ci gaba sosai - "blue blue". A lokacin zabukan fidda gwani na zaben shugaban kasa na 2020 ta zargi dan takarar Pete Buttigieg da "bude wariyar launin fata" kuma ta ba da misali da murfinsa na Vanity Fair a matsayin misali na "kafofin watsa labaru" a matsayin "shugaban farar fata". Ta kuma ce saboda kakakin majalisar Nancy Pelosi farar fata ce mai ra'ayin mata, ita ce mai son kishin kasa, don haka "idan kuka yiwa Nancy Pelosi tsafi, to kuna iya bayyana mubaya'a ga David Duke ".

Rubutun ta na tweet sun ja hankali. Ta rubuta cewa "saƙonnin tallafi na sirri wani nau'i ne na fifikon farar fata", "Makarantun Amurka masana'antun farar fata ne", "fararen fata yana bayan duk tashin hankali" da kuma "fararen fata yana kashe mu a zahiri". duk". A cikin Fabrairu 2022 ta ayyana cewa duk 'yan Republican, ko duk wanda ya yi aure ko abokansa da ɗan Republican, 'yan fasikanci ne.

Pro-Falasdinawa, gwagwarmaya da kuma zargin anti-Semitism

A cikin 2023, a lokacin yakin Isra'ila da Hamas, Hukumar Mawaƙin Ƙirƙirar Ƙirƙira ta yanke dangantaka da Rao bayan da ta kira Isra'ilawa a matsayin "ƙungiyoyin kisan gillar masu zubar da jini" waɗanda "sun damu da ƙasa da mulki da kuɗi har ku kashe jarirai don samun wannan STUFF". Ta yi da'awar cewa "mafi yawan fararen Amurkawa masu goyon bayan kisan kiyashi ne", kamar yadda ita kanta CAA ta kasa yin Allah wadai da abin da ta yi zargin kisan kiyashin da ake yi wa Falasdinawa .

Rao ta sami kulawa ga wani matsayi a kan X/Twitter inda ta kai hari kan Mujallar TIME don suna Taylor Swift a matsayin Mutum na Shekara ; Rao ya zargi mujallar da "fararen banza, tashin hankali farar fata, farar son Baƙar fata da kisan kare dangi " saboda zabar Swift, wanda Rao ya yi zargin zai iya dakatar da kisan kiyashin da ake yi wa Falasɗinawa da hannu ɗaya ta Instagram, amma ya zaɓi ba zai yi ba.

A cikin 2024, Rao ya yi zargin a kan X/Twitter cewa kwararrun likitocin sahyoniya suna yin barazana ga Bakar fata da marasa lafiya. Memba na Knesset Ahmad Tibi da tsohon masanin harkokin labarai na USB Mehdi Hasan da masanin ilimin zamantakewa Philip N. Cohen sun yi Allah wadai da sakon twitter na Rao a matsayin antisemitic, amma mai fafutukar yaki da wariyar launin fata Bree Newsome, farfesa a fannin likitancin asibiti a Jami'ar California San Francisco Rupa Marya ya kare shi., da kuma darektan fina-finan Jamus-Palestine Lexi Alexander . Buga na Yahudawa The Forward ya kwatanta mukamin da makircin Likitoci, wani farfagandar da gwamnati ta dauki nauyin yi a Tarayyar Soviet da ke zargin cewa wata kungiyar likitocin Yahudawa na kokarin kashe jami’an Tarayyar Soviet.

Race2Dinner da Haven

Bayan ta tsaya takarar Majalisa, cikin takaici da tattaunawa game da launin fata da wasu fararen mata masu jefa ƙuri'a suka fara da ita, Rao ta haɗu da "Race2Dinner" tare da Regina Jackson, wanda ta san a kan hanyar kamfen. Tun daga lokacin bazara na 2019, Jackson da Rao suna halartar liyafar cin abinci tare da mata farar fata 8 – 10, wacce ɗayan farar fata ta shirya kuma ta kula da su, kuma suna jagorantar tattaunawa da nufin fuskantar matan da nasu wariyar launin fata. An gudanar da irin waɗannan liyafar guda goma sha biyar a watan Fabrairun 2020 kuma lokacin da cutar ta COVID-19 ta buge, sun sami ƙarin 25 da aka tsara na shekara. Sakamakon barkewar cutar, sun canza zuwa liyafar cin abinci na yau da kullun da ake gudanarwa akan Zoom (ba tare da abinci ba) kusan sau biyu a mako kuma, sakamakon karuwar sha'awa tun bayan kisan George Floyd, cajin irin wannan abincin dare ya ninka daga $ 2,500 zuwa $ 5,000. Hakanan suna ba da shawarwari na mutum ɗaya da "Race2Community", wanda shine kwas ɗin kan layi na sati 8, ban da kiyaye asusun Patreon don masu biyan kuɗi. Rao da Jackson sun bayyana a fili cewa tattaunawar dole ne su kasance "marasa dadi", har ma "mai zafi", amma tsarin su ya canza a tsawon lokaci. Wasu masu halarta na farko sun bayyana tattaunawa a matsayin mai haifar da hawaye, kuma Rao a matsayin "manufa-ruhi" da "masu tunani". Tun daga wannan lokacin, sun sanya littafin 2018 na Robin DiAngelo White Fragility yana buƙatar karantawa kafin cin abinci.

Jackson da Rao sun rubuta littafi tare bisa gogewarsu da Race2Dinner. Littafin, wanda Penguin Random House ya buga, yana da suna White Women: Duk abin da kuka riga kuka sani game da wariyar launin fata da yadda za ku yi mafi kyau .

A cikin 2020, Rao ya kafa "Haven" tare da mai shirya siyasa Candice Fortin da kuma Tamara L. Lee. Haven shine "garin BIWOC da wadanda ba na binary ba ne wadanda suka samo asali don kawarwa, 'yanci da warkarwa ta hanyar fasaha da ba da labari".

Rayuwar sirri

Rao yana auren ɗan kasuwa Shiv Govindan, kuma yana da 'ya'ya biyu; tana zaune a Country Club, Denver, Colorado.

Littafi Mai Tsarki

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• Broken News (forthcoming)
• The Madlands (forthcoming)
• White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better (with Regina Jackson) (2022 ISBN 9780143136439)

Hanyoyin haɗi na waje

• Haven official website
• A cikin gidan yanar gizon wannan Tare Media
• Race2Dinner official website