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Transcript: THENMOZHI SOUNDARARAJAN on Annihilating Caste Systems /314
Ayana Young Hello and welcome to For The Wild Podcast. I'm Ayana Young. Today I'm speaking with Thenmozhi Soundararajan.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan It's not accidental to me that we see a rise of polarization and antidemocratic forces at a time when the Earth itself is unstable because of our actions around climate catastrophe. So in many ways for us to come back into alignment with the law of life, we have to choose life, which means choosing each other, choosing to slow down and to try to heal in our relationships with each other.
Ayana Young Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit American Civil rights artist, organizer, and theorist who has worked with organizations around the world to address the urgent issues of racial, caste, and gender equity. Her intersectional, cross-pollinating work helps to create a more generous, global, expansive, and inclusive definition of South Asian identity, along with safe spaces from which to honor the stories of these communities. She was also an inaugural fellow of the R
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit American artist, community organizer, technologist, and theorist, and author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition. Thenmozhi is cofounder and the executive director of Equality Labs, the largest Dalit civil rights organization working to empower caste–oppressed people in the United States and globally. Through her work at Equality Labs, Thenmozhi has mobilized South Asian Americans towards dismantling systems of oppression, with the goal of ending caste apartheid, gender-based violence, white supremacy, and religious intolerance.
Thenmozhi’s work has been recognized by the United States Congress, The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, The Producers Guild of America Diversity Program, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Sorbonne, Source Magazine, Utne Reader, The National Center for the Humanities, The National Science Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is a frequent contributor on issues related to South Asia, caste
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Our Founder
Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit American artist, community organizer, and founder / Executive Director of Equality Labs. As Equality Labs’ Executive Director, she works to dismantle systems of oppression—specifically caste apartheid, gender-based violence, Islamaphobia, and religious intolerance. Thenmozhi has mobilized thousands of South Asian Americans across faiths, castes, and generations towards not only ending violence against South Asian minority communities, but also to creating pathways for visionary futures rooted in collective care and safety for all marginalized communities. You can learn more about Thenmozhi’s work by visiting her website.
Our Partners
We are an interfaith, intercaste, multiracial coalition. Our coalition has support from the MeToo Movement, Amnesty International, Ambedkar Association of North America, Hindus for Caste Equity, Jakara Movement, South Asian Network, Sikh Coalition, the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Alphabet Workers Union and many others working to advance the rapidly expa
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