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

"Dalit" is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us "untouchable." Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world's oldest, longest-running dominator system … yet although "Dalit" means broken, it also means resilient. Despite the ban against untouchability more than 70 years ago, caste is thriving. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39. And the wreckages of caste are ...