6/11/2023 0 Comments The trauma of caste thenmozhi“These events could be traumatic alone, but all of them put together really point to a deep systemic crisis,” Soundararajan notes. As a Dalit activist, artist and technologist, Soundararajan most recently penned The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing and Abolition.Ī big impetus for the book, Soundararajan says, was the pandemic, the subsequent uprising against police violence in the United States and the various political issues the country has faced in recent years. ‘Dalit’ is the name chosen for themselves by the community who were declared ‘untouchable’ by the traditional Indian caste system. After centuries of dehumanisation under caste, we will really understand what it means to be limitless bodies who can explore opportunity, joy and coexistence-not just with each other, but with other species and with the earth,” shares Thenmozhi Soundararajan. “I dream of a future where all South Asian people can live free from discrimination based on birth, descent or work.
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