Yashica Dutt
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Yashica Dutt | |
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| Born | Yashica Dutt Nidaniya |
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| Years active | 2005–present |
| Notable work | Coming Out as Dalit |
| Website | yashicadutt |
Yashica Dutt or Yashica Dutt Nidaniya (born 5 February) is an Indian writer and freelance journalist who has written on topics including fashion, gender, identity, culture[1] and caste.[2] Following the response to her 2016 blog post, 'Today, I’m coming out as Dalit', Dutt published "Documents of Dalit Discrimination" on Tumblr and the book Coming Out as Dalit, which received a Sahitya Akademi award.
Yashica was born in a Valmiki Hindu family in Ajmer, Rajasthan on 5 February.[3] She completed her graduation in B.Sc. from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 2007. Yashica completed her master's degree in arts and culture journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2015.
Career
In 2016, Dutt authored a blog post titled 'Today, I’m coming out as Dalit' describing how she had hidden her caste and passed as ‘non-Dalit’.[4][5] Following her post Dutt began receiving messages from other Dalit women who shared similar experiences, prompting her to create the Tumblr blog "Documents of Dalit Discrimination" as a platform to publish some of their stories.[6][7]
Dutt's journalism and commentary has been published in Indian and international publications including The Atlantic,[8] The New York Times,[9] The Caravan,[10] Foreign Policy,[11] Hindustan Times, LiveMint, Scroll.in, The Wire, HuffPost India and The Asian Age.[12] She was a Principal Correspondent with Brunch, the Sunday Magazine of the Hindustan Times.[13][14]
