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Beyond binaries: Rethinking Dalit families and women’s realities
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Dalit families make up Dalit communities. But families, in the manner they exist today and the ones that some of us belong to, can be patriarchal, heteronormative hotbeds. They can be sites of sexual violence, internalized casteism, sibling rivalry, emotional injury and unresolved trauma. Given my complicated relationship with the traditional family system — both as a concept and by experience — the eulogizing of Dalit families hasn’t always rung true for me. Unlike Suraj Yengde, who in his book
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