Tag: Dalit feminism
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Survival, Rejection, and Dignity: A Dalit–Queer–Disabled Feminist Intervention into Intimacy, Power, and Emotional Life
Article by Dr. Vaishali Sonavane Abstract This article develops a Dalit–Queer–Disabled feminist framework to understand survival, rejection, and relational harm as structurally produced conditions rather than individual failures. Drawing from Ambedkarite anti-caste movement, queer and disabled feminist scholarship, trauma and attachment theory, and critical theories of power, the paper examines how caste, gender, sexuality, disability,…
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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…