Temporal Tapestries: Weaving Memory, Time and Future Visions in Research was CHASE conference where we (Godhadi, anti-caste queer feminist galactic worm, anti-caste/ dalit pluro-species, less-human body/mind/emotions of abhaya etc.) presented our first in progress research paper ‘Anti-caste time travel portals: Traversing fluid dalit polyvocal ancestral/ fictional bodies through expressions of embodied labour’. As part of the conference presentation, we will performed with/out our collective cosmological dalit (non)bodies 🤸🏼‍♂️🪱🐳


Sharing something from the script performed at the conference -
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“ In academia, I have heard people saying

[In dramatic deeper voice]

“Identify your research gap”


[contrast - with a mellow soft voice]

But what about those people and their contexts whose existence was never acknowledged by academic bubbles, not at least as thinkers or as humans? What about the institutionalised context which was created by our Caste-privilege and Colonial oppressors where the binaries between subjects: us and definitions of thinkers: them was formed as Dagadavarchi Rekh, in rigidity?”