Poet and playwright Shailja Patel.
This week we feature Asha Kowtal, an Indian organizer who is raising the voices of Dalit women across India and around the world. Dalit, or broken people, are on the bottom of India’s caste system and face brutal discrimination. Asha Kowtal will be speaking at UC Berkeley on April 19. We also talk with Shailja Patel, a poet and playwright and author of Migritude, a book which weaves together family history, colonization, and love. Migritude is the portrait of a woman in the boot print of Empire. Shailja Patel will be performing at Kaya Press’s 20th anniversary party at City Lights in San Francisco on April 17th.
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