Summary of The Trauma of Caste By Thenmozhi Soundararajan: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

By Willie M. Joseph

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Caste and Radical Dharma is an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid. Author Thenmozhi Soundararajan's work includes embodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations. Incisive and urgent, The Trauma of Caste is an activating beacon of healing and liberation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Dec 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215398814

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Foreword

TARANA BURKE

In the 2000s activists were inheriting a world that was filtered with the thinking of leaders like bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, and the Combahee River Collective. Too few of us understand what is going on for Dalit people under caste apartheid, and we need to know. Dalit women were some of the first South Asian leaders of the Me Too movement. A second-generation Dalit feminist woman's firsthand account of how the unyielding cruelty and systemic dehumanization of casteism affected her personally and moved her to collaborate with other Dalit survivors. Dalit communities have been systematically robbed of their humanity in every domain of life from the spiritual to interpersonal and structural.

How do we heal the wounds of the spirit like the ones that come from caste? Thenmozhi's book provides a loving path to resilience and healing. When oppressed leaders witness each other, we are able to build shared liberation. Witnessing is more than just liking a tweet or sharing a post. It is about offering grace to a shared traveler on the road to justice.

This is what this book is a reminder of. Thenmozhi uses her Dalit Buddhist background to bring insight to the journey of healing that Dalits and other oppressed people might travel. We build movements through awareness of ourselves, our relationships, and the structures we create that in turn impact the world. For all the organizers reading this book, cultivating these skills is critical.

Introduction: The Wound as Teacher

The Trauma of Caste is a series of meditations on the path to freedom, from my perspective as a Dalit American, feminist, and Buddhist. Dalit is the name we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us untouchable and spiritually defiling.