Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

by Yashica Dutt

The situation only seems to have deteriorated as rapes of Dalit women increased by 500 per cent in Gujarat between 2001 and 2014.

This reprehensible idea that Dalit women are responsible for their rape by being ‘sexually available’ also trickles down to the public response to their assault. It creates a damagingly false idea that Dalit women are somehow ‘less virtuous’ and therefore less deserving of sympathy or justice.

handle @DalitLivesMatter said, ‘Why Jisha is not Nirbhaya?… No State, No Centre Sheds tears. No candlelight vigils. No mass rallies.’

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