Soundararajan’s work includes embodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations to help readers explore their own relationship to caste and marginalization-and to step into their power as healing activists and changemakers. She ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective–and laying bare the grief, trauma, rage, and stolen futures enacted by Brahminical social structures on the caste-oppressed. And the wreckages of caste are replicated here in the U.S., too-erupting online with rape and death threats, showing up at work, and forcing countless Dalits to live in fear of being outed.ĭalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan puts forth a call to awaken and act, not just for readers in South Asia, but all around the world. The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world.
Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator system…yet although “Dalit” means broken, it also means resilient.Ĭaste-one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world-is thriving. “Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Thenmozhi Soundararajan will discuss The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition-an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.
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