Caste and gender together — Brahminical patriarchy, Dalit women, queer, trans, and disabled Dalit people.
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India's Parliament, which passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 in under two weeks. — Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs / PIB, GODL-India
India's 2026 Transgender Amendment Act stripped self-identification from the 2019 law it replaced. A DBA trans and queer network's response didn't stop at trans rights — it named the denial as the same one Dalits met in 1932.
A paper in the Journal of International Development pools sixteen years of national survey data to test a specific question: does marrying across caste lines measurably improve child nutrition outcomes, or has intermarriage been oversold as a fix for an inequality it was never positioned to solve alone?
Independent wage surveys years apart keep finding the same pattern: Dalit women in rural India are paid less than men, and less than other women, for the same work in the same field.
