One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather a man she “otherwise loved very much” utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid.
A Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, has proposed an ordinance to add caste to anti-discrimination laws that would make Seattle the first U.S. city to specifically outlaw caste discrimination.
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The pieces collectively drove home the grave compounding nature of intersectional marginalisation on the basis of gender, caste, disability, and history.