Category: Dalit Feminist Theory
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Healing, Survival, and the Path to Ease
Reclaiming Worthiness Beyond Titles and Trauma By Dr Vaishali Sonavane This morning I woke up with that same notion—and a choking, suffocating feeling of being unworthy, undeserving, unwanted, denied, rejected, reduced, and refused. I was in pain. I started feeling anxious—for no apparent reason. This has been there since I can remember. This is the…
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Survival as Inheritance: The Historical Life of Dalit Women and the Making of Generational Scarcity — A Canonical Case Study, Anita (Part 1)
By Dr. Vaishali Sonavane Intro Note: This is the first part of a two-part series exploring the life narrative of Anita (pseudonym), a Dalit Ambedkarite feminist activist. This section traces her childhood, schooling, and early encounters with caste, situating them within the Caste-Based Survival Trauma (CBST) framework. Abstract This article examines the life narrative of…
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Survival as Inheritance: The Historical Life of Dalit Women and the Making of Generational Scarcity
(This article examines historically produced survival regimes among Dalit women. Dalit women who have broken these structures and are thriving beyond them will be taken up in a subsequent article.) By Dr. Vaishali Sonavane Abstract This article examines how survival among Dalit women is historically produced, relationally transmitted, and structurally enforced, creating intergenerational patterns of…