Thenmozhi Soundararajan Instagram – So excited to share the Trailer for @traumaofcaste. Much thanks to @freedom.makes for being a partner in crime on this creative experiment. There are many difficult themes in the book that we tried to create a visual language for. I hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing from you about what you think.
For folks that need the script here it is:
Caste
It’s one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world
Despite the ban on untouchability seventy years ago
It impacts 1/9 Billion people
Every 15 minutes a crime is perpertrated against a Dalit
The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39
And wreckages of caste are replicated here in the United States too
Erupting online with rape and death threats
Showing up at work
And forcing countless Dalits to live in fear of being outed
It’s easy to fear overwhelmed
By caste pain
And the Polarization
Hatred and bigotry
That has arisen from caste
And yet in the face of all of this violence
I chose to follow the example of the buddha
And to sit
To take this terrible moment of the pandemic as a time to reflect
On how we got here
And what we can do to heal from thousands of years of oppression
The result is my book the Trauma of Caste
A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
I wrote this book so that we could finallly address the Soul wound that is caste
Acknowledge its historical and intergenerational harms
But also so that we can tend to
And let it be a teacher
So we never allow such dehumanization again
It ties Dalit movements to liberation movements around the world
Including historical solidarities with Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian, Feminist, and Queer movements around the world.
Laying bare the grief, rage, and stolen futures inflicted on all of us by caste
It is a love letter to all who would heal from violence
and are committed to a
Visionary future that frees all of us
This book is rooted in the commitment that
the opposite of genocide is to fight for life
And i hope this book is one light out of many to help us out of the darkness
The Trauma of Caste coming November 15, 2022 | Posted on 14/Nov/2022 21:17:55
