03/24/2023
Repost from MSJ Crew Member
Calling all South Asian Caste Abolitionists & Anti-Castists! I am launching an 8-week cohort for South Asians that will center on the book, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation, Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundarajan
Join me as we delve deep into this text and unpack what it means for us as South Asians in the diaspora. Regardless of ethnic, linguistic, cultural, or religious identity, caste has impacted our lives whether we realize it or not.
Who is this cohort for?
South Asians of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religious affiliations/ non-religious and ethnic identities who desire to debrahminize and dismantle the caste system and who want to build community with like-minded individuals.
As diasporic South Asians who bear a multitude of unhealed wounds (racism, racial violence, gender-based violence, oppression, patriarchy, sexism, queerphobia, loss of connection, displacement, colonization, family traumas, etc) it can be hard to grapple with the notion that you benefit from caste privilege or are complicit in caste-based violence especially if it was not openly acknowledged in your upbringing.
This Cohort is not a place to shame or guilt you. This Cohort is intended to be a transformative space that holds the complexity of your own marginalized identity and lived experience in tension with the truth of the death-dealing, violent, and oppressive caste system.
This is an invitation to co-create community, radical change, and revolutionary transformation in our lifetime. Just as many of us are well into our anti-racism journeys, speaking out against anti-Blackness and colorism, we must acknowledge that the caste system pre-dates the construct of race and study how this system has operated in the same brutal manner as anti-Blackness, therefore, making caste abolition an urgent matter. Join me as we do the hard work and endeavor into becoming good ancestors. Link to application in my bio.
