A painting depicting a woman in a red headscarf looking down, with text on a book "METANARRATIVES SILENCE COMPLEXITY" and a sign "STORYTELLING IS NEVER NEUTRAL SHAPES VALID MARGINALISED". Abstract silhouettes are in the background, one with "OTHER" on its back.
Akhtar critiques how metanarratives silence complexity and amplify ‘othering’ while illustrating that storytelling is never neutral but shapes whose identities are valid and whose are marginalised See more