Sunaina Arya, PhD

#PHILOSOPHER 🌎 •Author #DalitFeministTheory •Honourable.Mention @BluestoneRisingScholar’19 •Guest Editor, jCASTE @BrandeisU 🇺🇸 •JFI-Nepal🇳🇵#FirstGen 🇮🇳

[Sunaina Arya, PhD @Su_philos]

If you missed #VLF session on Dalit Feminist Theory, here it is.
If you were part of the discussion, here you’re :)
Your comments, critique, critical reflections, observations are welcome! 🙏🏿🌼

https://t.co/BdoYb1QJrG @lit_vid @appadappajappa @SachJaha @sindhurajasekar @nitskar

[Vidarbha Literary Festival @vidlitfest]

Fantastic session on Dalit Feminist Theory by Sunaina Arya at #VLF23 🙌🏻

[The Dalit Voice @ambedkariteIND]

Dhadak 2 isn't just a film, it's a reflection of reality. In Bihar, a backward caste boy marries a Brahmin girl. Her father, blinded by caste pride, shoots his own son-in-law. In this society, birth, education, marriage, respect, even death — all are ruled by caste. #Dhadak2

[Lokesh Bag @lokeshbag67]

Dhadak 2 has its shortcomings, but it's undoubtedly the boldest attempt to address caste by a non-Dalit director in Bollywood.

[Shilpak. @ugach_kahitarii]

Putting aside the remake tag,

Dhadak 2 probably is the most "non-Dharma Productions" movie that existed.

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"I'm writing for Black people. I don't have to apologize." Toni Morrison

[Sunaina Arya, PhD @Su_philos]

Excited to see you all, for 👇🏿

“Justice in the Shadow of Caste: Dalit Women’s Struggle for Dignity”

📆 17th April 2025
🕒 3:00-4:30 PM
📍@IIITDelhi (Hybrid)

Register Now:
https://t.co/v1qKl7q1Cs

[Harish Wankhede @KyaHarish]

#MahatmaPhule ideas are critique of the governing class for its distancing towards the problems faced by the #Dalits, women, and poor peasantry. He ignites a radical consciousness to bring substantive change in social and economic order.
-in my article.

https://t.co/Hj2wnIyq9x

[Sunaina Arya, PhD @Su_philos]

1 Day National #Seminar on Dr. B. R. #Ambedkar's 134th Birth Anniversary

“New India, Old Hierarchies: Rethinking Caste in a Changing Democracy”

📆 April 11, 2025
🕰️ 10:00 AM-06:00 PM
📍C-116, WoU (Hybrid)

Zoom ID: 95689496295
Pwd: 579684

#AmbedkarJayanti #CriticalCasteStudies

[Sunaina Arya, PhD @Su_philos]

🎓 Save the date: April 1st! 🌟

CoE - Critical #Caste Studies
invites you to a Panel Discussion on:

“Revisiting Theory in Critical Caste Studies”

🗓️ Tuesday, 1st April 2025
⏰ 11:00 AM-12:30 PM (IST)
📍 LT 3 @Woxsen #University (Hybrid)

Zoom ID: 910 0659 9483
Passcode: 919954

[Sunaina Arya, PhD @Su_philos]

CoE on *Critical Caste Studies* invites you to a Lecture by V. Geetha on “A Vocabulary for Inequality: Babasaheb Ambedkar, Caste, and Untouchability Studies”

🗓️ 19th Feb 2025
🕰️ 11:00am-12:30pm (IST)
Zoom: https://t.co/vlzhUFGWy1
#Ambedkar #Dalit #CriticalCasteStudies

[Zoë G. @HerWildness]

Today is Toni Morrison's birthday and I'm doing one of my favorite things, talking about Sula for the millionth time 😊

[West Virginia University Press @WVUPRESS]

Another Monday means another Essential Reading to celebrate Black History Month!! Zoë Gadegbeku @HerWildness , author of Blue Futures, Break Open, shares with us another foundational work from which she draws inspiration. Look next Monday for our final Essential Reading post!
See below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

The thing about Toni Morrison’s Sula is, I don’t think I will ever find adequate words to explain how much this means to me, and that’s no exaggeration. You might be surprised to hear this if you know me in real life, because you’ve probably experienced me finding a way to work a mention of Sula into any conversation, again, no exaggeration. Part of my fixation lies with trying to understand how in such a short book, Toni Morrison is able to create a world so rich and so total that includes details like Dewey, Dewey, and Dewey the “brothers” who became indistinguishable from each other while also looking nothing alike, or the rose-stem-shaped birthmark darkening above Sula’s eyebrow as she got older and started to “act up,” or the water swallowing and then closing quickly over Chicken Little’s head, or the sentence “their meeting would be thick with birds.”

The thing about Sula is, I have never gotten over the image of her strolling away from her best friend Nel’s wedding celebration not to be seen again for 10 years, with a smile that Nel could see and feel even from Sula’s back. That scene has come to exemplify for me what it means to be free, dangerously so, to be the kind of woman to turn to my own desires and creative impulses with “an ungloved hand.” I think about it every time I’ve felt like getting up from some desk in some office and walking away for good. I think about it as often as I think about Toni Morrison saying that being free doesn’t mean not having any responsibilities at all, it means choosing what you would like to be responsible for.

The thing about Sula is, she was the kind of “wicked” woman that everyone needed, all the people of that Black neighborhood called the Bottom in the hills above the fictional Ohio town of Medallion. They needed some counterpoint and some justification for their own self-judgement and morality, they needed someone to be “bad” so they could be “good.” The thing about Sula and Nel is, they might have been the other half of each other’s extreme that they had been needing, all along.

#BlackHistoryMonth #reading

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

DEI only existed because white people were racist. They had the opportunity to hire based on merit, and they hired their unqualified white friends every time.

DEI isn’t racism. It’s a solution to historical racism.

[🍉manar.mansor from gaza @mnar925311]

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[Hamdan @HamdanObaid2007]

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻, 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗽 𝗺𝗲🚨

We feel lost, we don't know where to go, no shelter, no future, we live without the bare necessities of life,Please (Donate & Share)🍉⬇️

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[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Stop referring to Palestinians as “Arabs.” We are Palestinians—we have our own identity, history, land, and national aspirations.

[BAWS.in @baws_bot]

Indian Society is a gradation of Castes forming an ascending scale of reverence and a descending scale of contempt—a system which gives no scope for the growth of that sentiment of equality and fraternity so essential for a democratic form of Government.
https://t.co/wNQFLLlROc

[Hansraj Meena @HansrajMeena]

पंजाब में बाबासाहब डॉ. अंबेडकर की प्रतिमा को नुकसान पहुँचाने का कायरतापूर्ण कृत्य बेहद निंदनीय है। यह संविधान और सामाजिक न्याय की प्रतिमूर्ति पर बड़ा हमला है, जो कि अहसहनीय है। हम दोषी असमाजिक तत्वों पर NSA के तहत कठोर कार्रवाई की माँग करते हैं। @BhagwantMann @ArvindKejriwal

[Mayawati @Mayawati]

1. संविधान निर्माता परमपूज्य बाबा साहेब डा. भीमराव अम्बेडकर की पंजाब के अमृतसर में स्वर्ण मन्दिर क�� पास हेरिटेज स्ट्रीट में स्थापित प्रतिमा खण्डित करने व वहाँ संविधान की किताब के नजदीक आग लगाने का प्रयास शर्मनाक। सरकारी लापरवाही से हुई ऐसी घटना की जितनी भी निन्दा की जाए वह कम।

[Tribal Army @TribalArmy]

अनामिका भगत और सुमंती देवी, छत्तीसगढ़ के शायला गाँव से, अपनी उरांव पेंटिंग कला के माध्यम से अपनी संस्कृति और लोककथाओं को दुनिया तक पहुंचा रही हैं। प्राकृतिक सामग्री से बनाई गई उनकी कला आने वाली पीढ़ियों के लिए धरोहर बन रही है। पढ़े:https://t.co/rcfHJmWB0e