Presentation: Highlighting art by Dalit, Adivasi and Bahujan artists and how savarna artists may overlook the oppressive history of caste in the work.

Workshop was held at Asian American Writer's Workshop. The discussion was led by Maari Zwick-Maitreyi, the Research Director at Equality Labs. 

MAARI ZWICK-MAITREYI is a South Asian Dalit diasporic activist, scientist, and community technology organizer. She believes in the power of oppressed peoples to tell their story with autonomy. As a scientist, her deeply held beliefs speak to the potential for science to transform and build community resistance against the ruling classes. She works to create participatory knowledge projects in Equality Labs that center community knowledge production to counter white and Savarna supremacist modes of learning and knowledge building.

Glossary:

Dalit: Those born into a caste outside of the four varnas (formerly known as "untouchables"). Means "broken but resilient". 

Adivasi: Indigenous people of South Asia

Savarna: Those born into one of the four varnas (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra)