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CHRONIC CRUELTY
Indian authorities say caste has nothing to do with rape because they want to deny the everyday brutality of the caste system to help perpetuate it..
Nikita Ramkissoon is a South African writer living in Sweden. She has a bit of a cat problem and plays the piano when she's not painting in her eternal endeavor to be Frida Kahlo. A women's rights activist who is obsessed with music, she tends to shout obscenities at misogynists in lyric form.
CONFRONTING THE TRUTH
Sweden participated in the slave trade and has a shady history with racist pseudoscience—and even today, its Black citizens and other minorities are marginalized and excluded.