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Ajantha Subramanian @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Check out the latest episode of The Caste Pod on Dalit feminism with Thenmozhi Soundararajan @dalitdiva.bsky.social! thecastepod.org/episode-9/

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Episode 9 – The Caste Pod

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Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Caste—one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world—is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. 📚📚💜 @dalitdiva.bsky.social

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Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Today @rlivier.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.social releases new research showing that every major U.S. media and tech company (except one) has eliminated or backpedaled on commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion in the face of Trump administration threats. www.freepress.net/policy-libra...

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COMPLICIT: Corporate Media's Capitulation to Trump's Attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

This comprehensive report sheds new light on the ongoing capitulation of major media, tech and telecom companies to the dictates of a bigoted and corrupt administration.

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Please consider donating and also forwarding this request for support the mother of our dear friend Praveen Sinha. His Mother has one of the rarest of cancers and they are having to pay for medication out of pocket. Any amount will be so appreciated: www.gofundme.com/f/2z3um-supp...

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Donate to Support for Retired Teacher's Cancer Battle, organized by Praveen Sinha

My mom is a retired school teacher. She worked in the nuclear industry for t… Praveen Sinha needs your support for Support for Retired Teacher's Cancer Battle

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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Donate to Support for Retired Teacher's Cancer Battle, organized by Praveen Sinha

My mom is a retired school teacher. She worked in the nuclear industry for t… Praveen Sinha needs your support for Support for Retired Teacher's Cancer Battle

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

"there's a new serif in town"

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 13/11/2025

I see the BJP propaganda chief is already in damage-control mode, not sure how successfully

Two quote-tweets of BJP propaganda chief Amit Malviya, who's attempting to explain Hardeep Singh Puri's inclusion in a 2014 Epstein email. The first, from journalist Anisha Dutta, points out that Puri was not a U.N. ambassador at the time of that message. The other, from "shivambanga," rhetorically asks whether Epstein was indeed referring to Puri.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 13/11/2025

wait I'm sorry I know this isn't the point but did Narendra Modi's oil-and-gas minister—Hardeep Singh Puri, whose name is misspelled here as "puree"—meet with Epstein during that year's U.N. climate conference???

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 01/11/2025

“There is always an attempt to diminish, undermine, or say caste does not exist…” @equalitylabs.bsky.social co-founder & winner of 2025 Vaikom Award from TN @dalitdiva.bsky.social says anti-caste movement in the US is being eclipsed by the collapse of democracy article-14.com/post/-aligni...

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‘Aligning Caste Interests With Extremists Has Not Worked In The US’: Winner Of 2025 Vaikom Award

Vaikom awardee and executive director of Equality Labs, a US Dalit civil rights advocacy, Thenmozhi Soundararajan talked to us on identifying a “different orientation” for hope in the US at a time whe...

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

What an honor to receive the 2025 Vaikom Award for Social Justice from the Government of Tamil Nadu—in the name and spirit of Periyar. His legacy calls us to action: end discrimination in all its forms—caste, gender, sexual orientation, religion—and make self-respect a lived reality for everyone.

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samira🍉🍉🍉 @goodsamiratan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Hunger is unacceptable. On Nov 1, SNAP benefits will be cut for 40 M children, elderly, and those with disabilities. Food banks are already stretched thin due to funding cuts. Please donate AND share your local food banks links to #writingcommunity #writersagainsthunger www.foodbanknyc.org

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Home - Food Bank For NYC

NYC's Largest Hunger-Relief Organization. Your $1 = Up to 5 Meals For Families.

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Thanks Will I appreciate the compliment so much! Let's get this!!!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A 85K #SpaceOpera ✨WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE✨ Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers & choose between revolution or redemption. #WOC #SouthAsian #Asian #A #SFF #DVpit !

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Hi Krystal! Thank you I had been adding them to everything but I think Bsky did not register the ones I put in for this one. This is so important and I will continue to keep adding them. Thank you for flagging this for me!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

You had me at grey gardens and the once-opulent space station. We need this published NOW!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE 85,000 Word #Spaceopera 🛸 Nesamma Abbas, a washed-up alien musician, 🎸 joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire ✨with a martial art of sound ⚡🎶 .😢She must confront her pain, 🧘‍♀️ Master her powers ⚔️ & choose: revolution ❤️ or redemption #WOC #Asian #SFF #DVpit

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#DVPit: ✨Welcome to WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE✨ Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers and choose between revolution or redemption. #WOC #SouthAsian #Asian #A #SF #SFF #POC

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Dear #litagents, I'm happy to present an #agentsguide for a revised version of WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE an 85K word Adult #SPACEOPERA. This will be pitched for #DVpit! #WOC #SouthAsian #Asian #A #SF #SFF #POC ALT

A Speculative Fiction Space Opera
85,000 Words
Freeing the Galaxy
Begins with Healing Yourself

This features an ethereal image from Joshua Mays with a woman holding a globe of sound magic. The pitch is:

Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band plotting a galaxy-wide uprising against the Human Empire. As the rebellion hurtles toward its final battle, she must confront her past, master the ancient martial art of sound, and choose
between revolution and healing the galaxy.

This is the comparisons page showcasing books with similar themes to WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE
The First Book is Rebecca Roanhorse's Black Sun with this text: Epic in scale
Explores generational trauma
Dazzling System of Magic

The next book is Space Oddity by Catherynne Valente with this text:
Distinctive Worldbuilding
And Marvelous Alien Races

The Last book is A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers with this text: Soothing Narrative Philosophical and Poignant Exploration of Healing

This is just an excerpt of WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE:
Everyone can recall the first time they heard or saw Nesamma. Mine was outside a café in New Jerusalem. Her wide eyes, rimmed with golden kohl, her bronzed java skin, lean, quick frame, and her hair that cascaded like liquid onyx past her hips—I remember it all.

I never knew what I was missing until I heard the longing in hers. Raw and husky, with the timbre of truth, such a voice comes once in a generation, once in a galaxy.

Even now, in certain alien districts on Earth, they whisper her name like that of a prophet who offers mystical proofs. Was she not trained by Oopan Brass, the last singing-warrior monk of Lethaa? A genius in his own right, blending the arts of war and song. The monks of Lethaa stood at the forefront of each battle, their fierce drums and songs the single force capable of turning the tide in their favor.

Before her final performance, Nesamma began with a quote from their holy book: “A song is a thing of both physics and psyche, for the right song can slice glass as easily as it can open an opponent’s heart.”

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

ohhhh! the yearning here really gets to me! I hope you finish this soon

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

So important there is so much trauma, loss, and grief that does not get discussed. I hope the writing for it is healing for you and the future readers.

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#MG #HF set in the shadow of the Akron rubber strikes & featuring Victor Lustig's infamous prison escape. This is so different and unexpected!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Day 6 of #DVParty My next book is WE DRUM FREEDOM: 🧘Jemina Brass is the first nun in Lethan’s warrior order 💔The monks haze her brutally. ✨The One Sound leads her to a secret mystic network 🪄Jemina learns to wield sound as power 🌟Now she must choose: tradition or a bolder future for all. #DVPit

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Really like the vietnamese recs! They really bring the vibes!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Good night Jinn sounds wonderful will the jinn be scary or friendly? Or do we have to wait to read it to find out

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Awww thank you!! It was so heart opening for me I’m glad it moved you

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I hope so if it ever gets adapted to another medium it would be perfect for it! Bu this is definitely a novel and not a libretto. Thank you for asking!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Oh this is so soothing. I can see how this creates the write atmosphere for your book. Thank you For Sharing!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

You can never go wrong with Supertramp! Love the vibes of this playlist.

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Oh wow! 🤩 So glad you liked it. I can’t wait for you to read and review when it’s out. Wish me luck on the querying journey so it makes it to bookshelves soon!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Aww Thank you R.L. so wonderful to get to know you through #DVPIT! So excited for your Bluebeard Retelling!!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Yes! It was really really moving for me to do. I hope you like it!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Day 5 of #DVParty: sharing the inspo playlist for my #SpaceOpera, WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. These tracks were recorded with Marvin Etizioni for my Sufi-blues album. They capture the book’s spirit & its emotional core. #DVpit #WOC #SouthAsian #Asian #A #SF #SFF #POC soundcloud.com/dalitdiva/se...

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We Sang Down the Empire

Listen to We Sang Down the Empire by dalitdiva #np on #SoundCloud

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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We Sang Down the Empire

Listen to We Sang Down the Empire by dalitdiva #np on #SoundCloud

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Oh how lovely! I’m so here for Haitian stories! Much love and good luck!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Yes! Welcome Thu sounds so beautiful! Can’t wait to see what you share :)

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