Your silence is an apartheid for us: Grace Banu

As Pride Month comes to a close, we are reminded of a recent powerful speech by engineer Grace Banu. Spare a few minutes for her message to Savarna and cis-gender allies.

June 26th 2021

Transcript of ‘Get Out of Class’ Webinar on Casteism in Indian Higher Education Institutes

A multimedia transcript of the Webinar ‘Get out of class: Caste and casteism in our top institutions’.

June 2nd 2021

Casteism keeps our top institutes running

An online discussion between Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi journalists, academics and activists revealed how casteism thrives in and defines modern Indian academia.

June 1st 2021

They Decided To Debate Women’s Leadership Skills. Then It Got Worse.

A recent debate reveals misogyny, casteism and queer-trans-phobia in Indian science academia.

January 2nd 2021

Looking at mental health through Caste

Therapeutic techniques work on the assumption that the cause of distress is only within the individual. However, an individual’s mental health is also affected by various forms of systemic discrimination. So for Dalits, therapy involves narrating trauma from one therapist to another, in the hope that they will eventually find a caste-sensitive professional.

December 17th 2020

Without interventions, COVID-19 will burn the bridge for STEM education

The recent death by suicide of LSR mathematics student Aishwarya Reddy is a tragic reminder of how STEM careers are not easily afforded. What are some approaches to change that?

November 25th 2020

A new woke academia & the museumisation of the Dalit experience

Two young scholars make sense of their experiences in a casteist academia that places more importance on political correctness than on actual transformation of material everyday hierarchies.

November 12th 2020

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