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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️
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I an award winning Dalit futurist and speculative fiction author. I am an inaugural member of the Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop for my upcoming book WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. I am also the author of the TRAUMA OF CASTE. Find me at www.dalitdiva.com
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · Oct 4
Hey #DVparty! Here’s the moodboard for my #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 and choose between revolution or redemption.
Mood board of my upcoming Space Opera We Sang Down the Empire. It features ephemeral and evocative art of artist Joshua Mays to convey the spritual element of the martial art of sound that is at the heart of the book. There are women of color in space age futuristic background and magic practices.
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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.
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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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???
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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“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

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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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November 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
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.
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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October 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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dalitdiva.bsky.social
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 !
October 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
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 !
October 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
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
October 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
I want this now!!!
straith.ca Straith🍉 @straith.ca · Oct 8
GREY GARDENS in space:

A fledgling documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station.

He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience.

#DVpit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella
October 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
#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
October 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
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
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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.”
October 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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dalitdiva.bsky.social
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
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
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
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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dalitdiva.bsky.social
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

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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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October 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
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...
We Sang Down the Empire
Listen to We Sang Down the Empire by dalitdiva #np on #SoundCloud
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October 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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dalitdiva.bsky.social
#DVparty Day 4 This is my #spaceopera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE as a meme. My novel examines the pain of colonization and how to heal yourself and free your communities. It incorporates buddhist and sufi themes of freedom from suffering. #DVpit #WOC #SouthAsian #Asian #A #SF #SFF #POC
October 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
#DVparty Day 4 This is my #spaceopera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE as a meme. My novel examines the pain of colonization and how to heal yourself and free your communities. It incorporates buddhist and sufi themes of freedom from suffering. #DVpit #WOC #SouthAsian #Asian #A #SF #SFF #POC
October 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE's opening:"Nowhere in New Jerusalem, as the sun sank behind the horizon of aging buildings, was there even a hint of change. And yet, it was there, waiting. Here in the capital of empire, the rot of power met the chaos of millions yearning for a different destiny." #DVparty
This card is my third day entry into the Diverse Voices Pitch Day for the hashtag #DVparty. We are sharing our opening lines. So this card features a capitvating and ethereal women of color singing in galactic space with a space lute. I have underneath it shared my opening lines to my novel WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE: Nowhere in New Jerusalem, as the sun sank behind the horizon of aging buildings, was there even a hint of change. And yet, it was there—waiting. Here in the capital of the Human Empire, the rot of power met the chaos of millions yearning for a different destiny.
October 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
Meet the MC of my #spaceopera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE: Nesamma Abbas a pop star who sang the Human Empire to its knees and pushed galactic history to the brink. Outrageous, kind, and wildly entertaining, her journey to heal herself and the galaxy is one of my favorites. #DVparty
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This graphic is part of the #DVparty pitch campaign where for Day 2 we share the main characters of our books. My book is named WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE and my main character is named Nesamma Abbas. Say her name, and it echoes across every star system of the dying Human Empire. The enigmatic pop star who sang the empire to its knees, she drove galactic history to the brink of chaos. Born to blaze across the stars, Nesamma lost everything when the Empire razed Jangoa, her homeworld, stranding her on Earth—alone and out of options. The empire’s brutality shook her faith in her lineage. For Jangoans are a rare people who can turn song into power. Refusing to be counted out, she joins a rebel rock band to heal herself—and to help free the galaxy. The graphic features an ethereal women of color holding a globe of sound in a futuristic landscape of an alien landscape. It features the beautiful art of Joshua Mays.
October 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Today is DAY 1 of #DVparty, a community event to talk up projects that Diverse Creators plan to pitch during #DVpit! Since it's our inaugural year on Bluesky, we'd like to invite any diverse creator to participate! Share about your beautiful work & let's build a #writercommunity here! #writersky
#DVparty Day 1 October 2, 2025): Post a moodboard or art for your project! Post on Bluesky with the #DVparty hashtag. Open all day! Please use alt-text if you post images. No AI generated images allowed. Have fun and make friends leading up to #DVpit! More info at dvpit.carrd.co Follow us at dvpit.bsky social for more updates!
October 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
Hey #DVparty! Here’s the moodboard for my #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 and choose between revolution or redemption.
Mood board of my upcoming Space Opera We Sang Down the Empire. It features ephemeral and evocative art of artist Joshua Mays to convey the spritual element of the martial art of sound that is at the heart of the book. There are women of color in space age futuristic background and magic practices.
October 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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dalitdiva.bsky.social
Dear Ones ~ Please join @EqualityLabs
@BuddhistPeace & Black Buddhist Studies Initiative for a processing space. We will grieve, we will sit, and we will heal & organize. This Thursday, September 18th 2025 5-6:30pm PT/ 8-9:30pm ET. Register at bit.ly/RootedCommunity or tap the link in bio
September 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
dalitdiva.bsky.social
Dear Ones ~ Please join @EqualityLabs
@BuddhistPeace & Black Buddhist Studies Initiative for a processing space. We will grieve, we will sit, and we will heal & organize. This Thursday, September 18th 2025 5-6:30pm PT/ 8-9:30pm ET. Register at bit.ly/RootedCommunity or tap the link in bio
September 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Today I walked the picket line with @teamsters.bsky.social Local 210 members on strike in the Bronx.

When Perrigo picked this fight, it wasn't just with these workers — it's with all of us. Because New York is a union town.
September 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM