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curtwilde · 10 months ago

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I was so pissed when I first saw this but then. I get it. Tell me more about the subaltern Miss Upper-caste bramhin Private convent school to Presidency to Columbia University professor generational wealth pipeline! You must know everything about adivasis of India from your swanky office at Columbia having left the country when you were twenty years old. You must know a lot about whether or not the subaltern can speak, since 1. you benefit from silencing subaltern voices and 2. you have made a career of their oppression.

The entire subaltern studies group were privileged fucks. Also wtf is subaltern. Just one of those useless jargons academics create to gatekeep knowledge. Call it what it is. Dalit. Aadivasi. Or is that too on the nose for you, not very good for the optics huh?

#like spivak is the ultimate example of upper caste upper caste people benifiting of dalit oppression #and these same people who worship spivak have so much to say about arundhati roy #but you know who never left the country despite multiple threats to her life and attacks on her house?#who continues to travel all over the country and advocate for kashmir and dalit causes?#its definitely not miss white husband american citizenship ohh my distant cousin who i never met killed herself for some reason i dont know #but its still trauma for me! you dont get it i carry it in my body! and i AM going to use my victim complex to make it into a career #yeah she's the taylor swift #gayatri chakravarti spivak #can the subaltern speak #desi academia #casteism #india #tina rambles

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