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Ambedkarite Buddhist Women as Readers and Book Sellers at Chaityabhoomi
Author: Hritika Wasnik
The morning of 5th December 2022 saw an influx of lakhs of Ambedkarites in Shivaji Park and Chaityabhoomi, Dadar. Some of them were in groups, while others were with their…
Intersectionality – Experiences Of The Marginalised Women
Author – Dr. Amritpal Kaur
Women’s oppression is the most widespread and the deepest form of oppression in our society. Women all over the world have been relegated to the position of the other,…
India’s Government Must Do More To End Caste-based Sexual Violence – Say Dalit Women’s Rights Activists
Dalit women’s rights activists in the National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL) are voicing serious concerns about how India is failing to meet its legal and moral obligations to protect Dalit women…
Meet Saka Shailaja – A Dalit Woman Entrepreneur Who Has Uplifted 10,000+ Underprivileged Women in Telangana
47-year-old Saka Shailaja has been doing awe-inspiring work over the last two decades in empowering and economically enabling thousands of women in Telangana – especially women from the Schedul…
Babasaheb Ambedkar – A True Intersectional Feminist
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
Women’s oppression is the most widespread and the deepest form of oppression in our society. Women all over the world have been relegated to the position of the other, …
Reviewing Caste – A Dalit Woman’s Perspective
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
Caste, as Babasaheb said, is a notion but what makes it a complex phenomenon to understand is the fact that it is also a notional reality. Caste is never singular, it i…
On Manusmriti Dahan Divas – 8 Ways Brahminical Patriarchy Affects Me
Author – Sheeva Yamuna
I decided to go with an 8 points list, the most clichéd approach to “name” the problem because it is so difficult to put everything in one article otherwise. It is also di…
Dalits of Punjab – Literature of Punjab Dalit Women
Author – Dr Amritpal Kaur
Although Punjab has a rich tradition of literature, the entire genre of identity literature is blind to gender and has strongly refused to engage with Dalit women. If w…
Indian Patriarchy – An Intersection of Caste, Class and Gender
Author – Dr. Amritpal Kaur
The human social organisation has evolved through a series of stages: animal-like sexual promiscuity was followed by matriarchy (rule of the mother), which was in turn…
Remembering Mariamma Chedathy – Dalit Folk Artist From Kerala
Author – Sheeja Radhakrishnan,
Introduction
Mariamma John – better known as Mariamma Chedathy – was a well known Dalit folk artist in Kerala. Mariamma Chetathi who worked in a college as a sweepe…
Ambedkarism is Feminism – A Response to ‘Feminism is Brahminism’
Author – Anannya G Madonna
Some scholars in the Dalit circles have been on a crusade to discount, dismiss and disprove the presence of patriarchy among the Dalits taking a jibe at the Dalit womx…
Dalit Feminism
“Who, just tell me, who the hell is that new girl? Doesn’t she know that she has to bow down to the master? Shameless bitch! How dare she pass me without showing due respect? At this, the girl’s in…
Knowing (Reading) ‘The Ambedkar’ And Being ‘An Ambedkarite’: Through The Anti-Caste And Feminist Lens
In the contemporary period, we see that there were very few informed Ambedkar age who are coming in the forefront and challenging the social, economic, cultural, political, educational systems who …
Dalit Women To Be Heard
It is my speech delivered at the National Convention on the Rights of Dalit Women Human Rights Defenders: ‘Dalit Women Speak’ on 17-18 January 2020, at HDRC, St. Xavier’s Campus, Ahmedabad)
Firs…
Rise of Dalit Feminism
The issues and problems faced by Dalit women are as wide as the nation itself. Dalit women’s position in the Indian society is neglected, pathetic and sorrowful because of various forms of discrimi…