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Six Books By Dalit Women Writers Exploring Lives Lived On The Margins Of Caste And Gender

By Vaishnavi Mahurkar

“Dalit women’s voices have been inadequately represented or sometimes completely erased from the literary canon. Other times, Dalit women have been represented in romanticized narratives, without a real examination of their marginalized position in the hierarchy of caste and gender.

The Dalit feminist struggle began when the upper caste women’s movement discarded the category of caste as impactful of the woman’s position, claiming that caste had been transcended by category of “woman”. Dalit women’s issues did not find a place in that narrative.”

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Eartha Kitt photographed by Gordon Parks for LIFE magazine, 1952.

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If you want to know what I really think, I think you should drop both these two and I’ll do it solo.

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#a journey of villaneve being face to face with each other

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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, January 20, 1933

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It’s like she’s some sort of clock that’s finally struck its chime and woken me from this dream we’ve been living, reminded me how many years separate me from a world I still think of as home. How unrecognizable the woman I am now would be to the woman I was then.

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1. The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook 2. Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee 3. Black Sails 4.08 - “XXXVI” (2017) 4. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture] (2016) 5. Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins 6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma 7. Black Mirror 3.04 - “San Junipero” (2016) 8. God’s Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee 9. Saving Face (2004) dir. Alice Wu 10 + 11. Happy Together (1999) dir. Wong Kar-wai

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