They do it because they had to pass off as someone they are not.
I understand that it is used by the LGBTQ community. The only way I could think of framing it was by “coming out”.
I knew it would, in a big way, define me and the rest of my life. That moment (writing the note) was so huge. I felt like I had unburdened all the shame, guilt and the disgust that I was carrying for so long with who I was. How are they similar?Ĭoming out was such a huge moment for me. You have used it to reclaim your identity.
We generally associate the act of “coming out” with the LGBTQ community and assertion of their sexuality. She was at the Jaipur Literature Festival recently where she spoke to about “coming out”, of seeking for a language to describe her experience, her privilege and the absence of Dalit literature in India. As a step towards that, Dutt wrote a memoir, Coming Out As Dalit penning down her experiences, her constant pretension of being from an upper caste and wilful denial, Vemula’s suicide and her growing awareness that if circumstances were slightly different (her father was a civil servant with the State government and her mother, determined to give her an upper-caste upbringing, took pains to make her daughter not look like any other dark-skinned Dalit or be called a bhangi ) it could have been her: Her social mobility could impede systemic oppression but not preclude it.Ī journalist, Dutt is based out of New York and has been extensively writing on culture, identity and gender.
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