Event: Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit with Mona Eltahawy
Thrilled to announce that I’ll be in conversation with Yashica Dutt, internationally acclaimed Dalit journalist and among the most recognized global voices on caste, to discuss identity, India's caste system, and the newest edition of Dutt's book, Coming Out As Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System at the Asian American Writers' Workshop on Thursday February 29 at 7:00 pm.
This in-person event presented by the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) is free to attend and will be followed by a reception and book signing.
SAWCC is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to the advancement, visibility, and development of emerging and established South Asian women, nonbinary, genderfluid, and femme presenting artists and creative professionals by providing a physical and virtual space to profile their creative and intellectual work across disciplines.
About Yashica Dutt: Award-winning author of Coming Out as Dalit, Dutt is an internationally acclaimed Dalit journalist and among the most recognized global voices on caste. Dutt's work has been published in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and the Atlantic; and she has been featured on the BBC, the Guardian, and PBS NewsHour.
Coming Out as Dalit, which was published in the South Asian subcontinent in 2019, quickly became a bestseller and is currently part of the curriculum in over 50 colleges and universities worldwide, including Harvard University, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis.
Dutt was involved in the passing of the historic anti-caste bill in the city of Seattle and her writing has been instrumental in shaping the text of the first-in-nation law. Dutt is currently working on her second book on caste in the United States, also commissioned by Beacon Press. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School and lives in Brooklyn.
Mona Eltahawy is a feminist author, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. She is editing an anthology on menopause called Bloody Hell! And Other Stories: Adventures in Menopause from Across the Personal and Political Spectrum. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015) targeted patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa and her second The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls (2019) took her disruption worldwide. It is now available in Ireland and the UK. Her commentary has appeared in media around the world and she makes video essays and writes a newsletter as FEMINIST GIANT.
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