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DESCRIPTION:Caste is one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world. It negatively 
 impacts 1.9 billion people worldwide, crippling their quality of life. With 
 its roots in India, the caste system ranks people into five castes that are 
 based on spiritual purity and their deeds in past lives. For anyone born 
 into a culture where caste is rampant, it determines who and where they 
 worship, choices and advancement in education and career, even personal 
 relationships-in essence their entire lives. Brahmins, who created this 
 system in Hindu scripture, are at the top of the caste system and have 
 benefited from centuries of privilege, access, and power because of it. 
 Dalits, who sit at the bottom of this hierarchy, are branded "untouchable" 
 and sentenced to a violent system of caste apartheid with separate 
 neighborhoods, places of worship, and schools.  \n \nDalit American 
 activist and author Thenmozhi Soundarajan, has been working to end caste 
 oppression around the world for decades. In her work, she endeavors to help 
 Dalit individuals and families heal through international solidarity with 
 other oppressed people, working together to dismantle caste apartheid. 
 Thenmozhi's work is a call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in 
 Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism. \n\nJoin Thenmozhi 
 Soundararajan for a powerful conversation on the ongoing trauma of the 
 caste system and Dalit people's fight against oppression. Sharing from her 
 latest book, The Trauma of Caste, in which she examines caste from her 
 feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective; tying Dalit 
 oppression and the fight against that oppression to the ongoing liberation 
 movements among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer 
 communities.\n\nFree, suggested donation of $10.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/18/18853854.php
SUMMARY:On Healing the Trauma of Caste
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/18/18853854.php
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