Despite the significant amount of aid seemingly invested in the Global South, intergenerational mobility (IGM) has largely stalled in low-income countries, and many remain increasingly constrained by the socioeconomic circumstances of their birth.
South Asians are not just racial minorities — they are also members of classes, castes, and genders. Sometimes it's far more convenient to think in terms of one's own disadvantage than it is to contend with advantage.
“Women Take the Floor” candidly illustrates the blurred line between issues of feminist idealism, feminist pragmatism, and a restlessness to finally transcend the weight of the struggle. It doesn’t offer any easy answers, but rather illuminates a constant tension between various realities, possibilities and fantasies.
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett is the Vice Chair of Primary Care Innovation and Transformation and the Program Director in the Department of Family Medicine...
When art is inherently tied to profit-making through the fashion industry, I wonder how a true diversity reckoning will occur. Does diversity need to be profitable for it to be truly instituted?
Sometimes I want to see myself represented not as a “minority” whose identity must be inspected but as a regular person — something Bollywood offers me.
