Her approach is always inclusive, intersectional and critical she draws attention to biases, inequalities and oppressive systems of casteism, racism and discrimination. She is the co-founder of Poetic Justice Foundation, a social justice organization, where she creates impactful and transformative programming to inspire and engage the South Asian community in change-making.
Thenmozhi previously co-founded Third World majority, an international media training organization and collective that supported people from disenfranchised groups in telling their own stories, in their own way.Īnita Lal is a fourth generation settler, born and raised in the traditional territories of Lhtako Dene and Semiahmoo, Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations, also known as British Columbia. Through her work at Equality Labs, Thenmozhi has mobilized South Asian Americans towards dismantling eons-long systems of oppression, with the goal of ending caste apartheid, gender-based violence, white supremacy, and religious intolerance. Equality Labs is the largest Dalit civil rights organization working to empower caste-oppressed people in the US and globally. Currently, Thenmozhi is the Executive Director of Equality Labs, which she co-founded. Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit American artist, community organizer, technologist, and theorist. Join the UBC Centre for India and South Asia Research for a book talk to understand why caste matters among the diaspora and how the Dalit Feminist perspective can fight caste based discrimination. From renowned activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan comes her brilliant debut book, which is an analysis of caste-based oppression, the 1.9 billion people it harms daily, and a radical path toward healing.
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