How Caste Hate Persists on the Internet
Caste is an entrenched social reality, and it has transformed into a new avatar on various social media platforms. Social scientists must also study this phenomenon and how it persists today despite a...
Caste is an entrenched social reality, and it has transformed into a new avatar on various social media platforms. Social scientists must also study this phenomenon and how it persists today despite a...
Social & Media Matters In Conversation with Spectrum Labs
As part of our work on identifying caste based discrimination online, and redefining social media community standards to accommodate caste based abuse, our founder Amitabh Kumar was part of a podcast ...
In conversation with Dr. Ishwar Naik #DalitLivesMatter
In continuing with our series "Dalit Lives Matter", wherein prevalence of caste based issues on online spaces is discussed with various eminent personalities, Ms Pratishtha Arora engaged in an interes...
Youth Participation Is Essential For A Casteless Society
On 28th August 2020, Tularam Athya, from Madhya Pradesh spoke with Pratishtha Arora from Social & Media Matters. He is known for working on the caste system at the grassroots. He is a social activist ...
#DalitLivesMatter with Prof. GS Meena
On 21st August, Ms Pratishtha Arora, engaged in a Twitter Live session with Prof. Ganga Sahay Meena, an associate professor from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
The conversation began with Ms Prati...
Dalit Women’s Online Experience Is Marginalization Within Marginalization
Rachelle Bharati Chandran is an activist known for her work on Dalit rights. She is an academic and writer. Rachelle said, “There’s lack of support for Dalit community. Social media has mirrored the c...
Dalit Lives Matter: A New Consciousness In Society
Priyanka is a member of National Federation of Dalit women and has been working towards a social justice movement, She is also a member of UN Women National Gender Youth Activists.
Sharing her story, P...
Our Voices Will Be Dumped If We Don’t Come Online
On 24th July 2020, Pratishtha Arora was in conversation with Kiruba Munusamy to talk about her journey on Caste and Caste issues for #DalitLivesMatter campaign.
Kiruba is a practicing lawyer in the Su...
Twitter as Enabler for Social Change
On 17th July 2020, Ajay Kumar, Executive Director and co –founder of Rights NGO spoke to Rayyan Yunus, Research & Training Associate at Social Media Matters for Dalit Lives Matter Twitter live session...
Need For An Equal Society To End Discrimination
On 10th July 2020, Paul N Divakar, Convener on global forum on discrimination on work based on dissent spoke to Pratishtha Arora, Programme Manager at Social Media Matters for Dalit Lives Matter Twitt...
An Idea of Dialogue and Dissent!
Guru Prakash, Assistant Professor (Law), Patna University & Adviser, Dalit Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (DICCI), is also a visiting fellow at India Foundation
and is a contributor to mainstr...
Celebrating Juneteenth with Prof Anand Kumar
On 19 th June 2020, Amitabh Kumar, Founder, Social Media Matters spoke with Prof Anand Kumar on Juneteenth against slavery for an initiative on Dalit Lives Matter.
Sharing his childhood experiences on ...