The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (Encore)

What is caste? According to author Thenmozhi Soundararajan, “caste is suffering. That one’s worth and fate are determined at the moment of birth. Forced to exist in a caste apartheid of segregated ghettos." On this week's episode, we talk to Thenmozhi Soundararajan the author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition. Examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective , Thenmozhi lays bare the grief, trauma, rage, and stolen futures enacted by Brahminical social structures on the caste-oppressed. This is an encore presentation of a show that first aired June 12, 2024.

Featuring: Thenmozhi Soundararajan the author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolitio

Making Contact Team

Host: Anita Johnson

Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang

Executive Director: Jina Chung

Editor: Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong

Engineer: Jeff Emtman 

Digital Marketing Manager: Lissa Deonarain

Music:

Blue Dot Sessions - "3rd Chair"

Blue Dot Sessions - "Paving Stones"

Learn More: 

• The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
• Thenmozhi Soundararajan / Dalit Diva
• Google’s plan to talk about caste bias led to ‘division and rancor’
• Hindu Sect Accused of Using Forced Labor
• Dismantling the Caste System

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