ON TOPIC: THIS IS THE PART WHERE WE READ SOME MORE

On Dalit and working-class issues:

• Chhaya Koregaonkar talks about why she identifies as an Ambedkarite writer.
• On Independence Day, this blog revisits Mahasweta Devi’s words on the death of Chuni Kotal.
• Is legal protection for domestic help in the works? This policy would prescribe a minimum salary and paid leave.
• A feature on emerging Dalit feminisms in The Quint.
• Caravan Magazine writes a detailed report about Unilever’s effect on the health of its employees and Kodaikanal’s climate.

Digital feminisms:

• Indian feminists respond to the porn ban and un-ban…
• …and Narayani Anand examines various viewpoints on the right-ness and wrong-ness of the ban.
• Cyber-misogyny: An account of the harassment faced by Preetha G, online activist, and her supporters.
• By the way, here’s the rad tumblr you never knew you needed.
• Mumbai’s Wandering Women film festival just ended. Here are some pictures so that you can die in jealousy.
• Lastly, a music video from queer Indians, designed to give everyone a major case of the feels, set to the tune of Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud”.

Outside India:

• Telegraph India reports that Bangladeshi political dissenters live in fear of violent conservative elements.
• CNN visits the village most affected by recent sexual abuse crimes in Pakistan.
• Humans of New York visits Pakistan and highlights Syeda Ghulam Fatima, anti-bonded labor activist, in a 7-part photo series and fundraiser.

Diasporic voices:

• Mariya Karimjee writes about damage.
• Fariha Róisín on her mother’s mental illness, in a moving piece for Vice.
• An article in Brown Girl Magazine about Kiran Gandhi’s freebleeding run at the London Marathon.

And others:

• Woven: on love, loss and inherited mythologies.
• Happy birthday to Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson, a major leader of the Stonewall Riots.
• U.N. peacekeepers often become perpetrators of sexual violence.
• Mourning lives lost to transmisogynistic and racist violence in the U.S.
• Janelle Monáe is cut off during a speech about #blacklivesmatter and police brutality.
• Amandla Sternberg is everything: mic.com covers how the Hunger Games actress is becoming a brilliant activist.