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Thread for savarnas asking how to educate themselves about casteism and casteist oppression and how to create space for dialogue.
Create a reading group.
Create a reading group.
Start with Babasaheb's books on Columbia University's website and on Pradeep's ( @AmbedkarCaravan ) velivada.
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/index.html https://velivada.com/dr-b-r-ambedkar-books-2/
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/index.html https://velivada.com/dr-b-r-ambedkar-books-2/
You can read contemporary dalit issues and writers on round table india too. ( @ROUNDTABLEIND ) https://roundtableindia.co.in/
Please ensure credit, citations, payment, linkbacks if you use any survivor caste intellectual labour. It is a big problem that academicians and journos literally steal Facebook posts/ articles/ mine survivor castes for thesis/grants and like without giving credit or reference
If you are savarana, create a dialogue amongst savarnas about savarna previlege, complicity, whitewashing, levels of dehumanizations. There are many resources so there should be self education on how to be a good ally, empower, pass on the mic.
https://guidetoallyship.com/
https://guidetoallyship.com/
From the #hathrascase understand how casteism protects savarna women at the cost of dalit women's lives and bodies and the mechanics of Brahminical Patriarchy thereon. https://www.thequint.com/news/india/understanding-brahminical-patriarchy-why-smashing-it-isnt-bad
A lot of woke savarna feminists go around self-identifying as Dalits or equivalent to them. Would they be annihilated - burnt like trash as Manisha was? So think about introspective dialogue on Caste based sexual violence.
