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词条 Thenmozhi Soundararajan
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  1. Personal life

  2. Professional life

  3. Further reading

  4. References

  5. External links

{{tone|date=February 2019}}{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2017}}Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit rights activist based in the United States of America.[1] She is also a transmedia storyteller, songwriter, hip hop musician and technologist.[1][2][3]

Personal life

Thenmozhi Soundararajan's parents are from a village in rural India and experienced inter-caste violence there. Her father is a doctor and her mother was the first woman from her family to get a college education.[4] She learned from her mother that she was a Dalit while at school. She had been reading about how the Bhopal disaster affected Untouchables, asked her mother some questions and was told that she, too, came from the community.[5]

Soundararajan publicly admitted to being a Dalit when she made a documentary film on caste and violence against women as a part of her college thesis at University of California, Berkeley. She says the decision had many consequences: while fellow Dalits secretly confided in her about their identity, she says that she also faced discrimination from almost all of the Indian professors in her campus, who refused to advise her on projects.[5]

Professional life

Soundararajan is a filmmaker, transmedia artist and storyteller. She is also the executive director of Third World Majority, a women of color media and technology justice training and organizing institution based in Oakland, California. She is also a co-founder of the Media Justice Network, and Third World Majority is one of the network’s national anchor organizations. In that context she has worked with over 300 community organizations across the United States.[6]

Soundararajan has used storytelling to speak about casteism within the Indian diaspora. She has worked with bassist Marvin Etizioni on her debut blues album, Broken People, which was a collection of liberation songs about people belonging to the Black and Dalit community.[7][8] Her essay and a photo series about her Dalit experience in the United States was published in Outlook magazine.[9]

In 2015, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation included her in their first group of Artist as Activist fellows.[1] She has used this fellowship to work on #DalitWomenFight, a transmedia project and activist movement.[1][10]

Soundararajan has been involved in the curation and creation of Dalit History Month, a radical history project.[11][12] Its goal is to share Dalit historians' research, which is a deviation from many scholarly projects which have studied Dalit history without leadership or collaboration from Dalits.[13]

Further reading

  • Soundararajan, Thenmozhi; Varatharajah, Sinthujan. Caste Privilege 101: A Primer for the Privileged, The Aerogram, 2015.
  • Soundararajan, Thenmozhi. I'm A Proud Dalit-American And This Is Why I Marched, Huffington Post, 2017.
  • Gaikwad, Rahi. An equal music, The Hindu, 2016.

References

1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/12/thenmozhi-soundararajan-dalit-women-art-and-activism|title=Thenmozhi Soundararajan: fighting the Dalit women's fight with art and activism|last=Holpuch|first=Amanda|date=March 12, 2015|website=|publisher=The Guardian|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=2017-08-05}}
2. ^{{Cite interview|last=Soundararajan|first=Thenmozhi|interviewer=Laura Flanders|title=Creating Technology by the People, for the People|date=March 20, 2017|publisher=The Nation|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/qa-thenmozhi-soundararajan/|access-date=2017-08-13}}
3. ^{{Cite interview|last=Kowtal|first=Asha|last2=Soundararajan|first2=Thenmozhi|interviewer=Sonia J. Cheruvillil|title=The Journey towards Liberation|date=May 2, 2014|access-date=2017-08-12 |url=http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/05/asha-kowtal-thenmozhi-soundararajan/ |publisher=Feminist Wire}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/can-art-dismantle-a-centuries-old-system/40513|title=Can Art Dismantle a Centuries-Old System?|last=Sathian|first=Sanjena|date=April 14, 2015|work=OZY|access-date=2017-08-12|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}
5. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://elle.in/magazine/still-i-rise/|title=What it means to be an 'Untouchable' in 2017|last=Soundararajan|first=Thenmozhi|date=July 29, 2014|website=Elle India|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2016-05-29}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://conference.aidindia.org/frontpage/speakers/thenmpzhi-soundararajan-panelist-caste-issues-session/|title=Thenmozhi|last=|first=|date=|website=AID Conference|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701181411/https://conference.aidindia.org/frontpage/speakers/thenmpzhi-soundararajan-panelist-caste-issues-session/|archive-date=2016-07-01|dead-url=yes|access-date=2017-08-13}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.dalitcry.org/special_reports/still-I-rise.htm|title=Still I Rise|last=Soundararajan|first=Thenmozhi|date=|website=Dalit Cry|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=August 13, 2017}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://scienceandfilm.org/people/307/thenmozhi-soundararajan|title=Thenmozhi Soundararajan|last=|first=|date=|website=Sloan Science and Film|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=August 13, 2017}}
9. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/the-black-indians/281938|title=The Black Indians|last=Soundararajan|first=Thenmozhi|date=August 20, 2012|work=Outlook India|accessdate=2017-08-05}}
10. ^{{Cite news|url=http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/11/04/women-fight-to-dismantle-indias-destructive-caste-system/|title=Women campaign to dismantle India’s destructive caste system|last=Booth|first=Katie|date=November 4, 2015|work=Women in the World in Association with The New York Times|access-date=August 13, 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|last2=Maloney|first2=Alli|language=en-US}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8123:dalit-history-matters&catid=119:feature&Itemid=132|title=Dalit History Matters|last=Dalit History Matters Collective|first=|date=April 1, 2015|website=|publisher=Round Table India|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=2017-08-05}}
12. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.firstpost.com/living/ambedkar-jayanti-2017-heres-a-look-at-dalit-history-month-to-explore-forgotten-narratives-3383696.html|title=Ambedkar Jayanti 2017: Here's a look at Dalit History Month to explore forgotten narratives|last=Maneck|first=Ankita|date=2017-04-14|work=Firstpost|access-date=2017-09-11|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en-US}}
13. ^{{Cite news|url=http://theconversation.com/selfie-is-not-a-dirty-word-68966|title=Selfie is not a dirty word|last=Gonsalves|first=Roanna|date=November 17, 2016|work=The Conversation|access-date=August 13, 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}

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