International Development is a Colonial Construct

This is a screenshot from The Humanitarian Women's Network. I love how clearly this woman lists the benefits of this international career which gives her low paid labour, big houses with big gardens! It's so honest, the benefits of International Development /Aid Sector. 

I had to take screenshots of a conversation I had on the Humanitarian Women's Network on Facebook. The woman who wrote the Post is Anonymous so there's that. 

I couldn't resist writing a response as I was really offended. 

I did take a screenshot of what was posted and my response because it's proof of how colonial this world is. What's the difference between a colonial White Woman complaining about the dangers of India or Dark Africa? She lumps India, Pakistan and Nigeria as one and says they are "risky." Mind you, she also delegates the rural areas in these countries as even worse than the urban spaces. There's no limit to the levels of colonial /racist ignorance. These are the women who populate this Sector! She erases populations , women, histories, cultures. 

Mind you, no one challenged her. 

I made sure I took screenshots because too often we are gaslit by Western women, especially white women, who really think they are not racist or ignorant and have every freaking right to be working in powerful positions in this Industry.