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Coming Out as Dalit with Yashica Dutt

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"The only story Dalits are credited with telling is our own," says Yashica Dutt on systemic bias.
Author and journalist Yashica Dutt discusses her memoir 'Coming Out as Dalit,' exploring why Dalit writers often turn to personal narrative, the backlash within communities over 'passing,' and the intersections of caste with gender, class, and Black feminist thought in both India and the United States.

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A serious conversation about caste visibility, place, and the cost of being known.

This conversation treats caste disclosure as a matter of risk, place, and the uneven cost of being known. Yashica Dutt and Ajanta Subramanian stay with the hard middle ground between passing and disclosure, and that keeps the discussion grounded.

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For when you want a serious conversation about caste, hiding, and what disclosure can cost.

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