Meet the ‘punk dalit girl’ who is india’s first hugo nominee

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Mimi Mondal, who describes herself as ‘punk Dalit girl’ on Twitter, is India’s first nominee for the prestigious Hugo Awards — given annually for the best literary works of science fiction


or fantasy — in the Best Related Works category. Mondal is a New York-based writer of speculative fiction and social justice non-fiction. She is also the poetry and reprint editor of


_Uncanny Magazine_, a science fiction and fantasy magazine which has been nominated twice for the Hugo Awards. This year, Mondal has been nominated for her co-edited work _Luminescent


Threads: Connections to Octavia E Butler_. > In this book, we collected letters that authors had written to the > eminent African-American woman science fiction and fantasy writer,


> Octavia E Butler. In these letters — we have over forty of them > — the authors talk about their own journeys as writers and how > Butler’s work has inspired them. Mimi Mondal


Mondal grew up in Kolkata, trained as an editor, and studied in Scotland and New York. In 2015, she received the Octavia E Butler Memorial Scholarship that enables writers of colour to


attend one of the Clarion writing workshops, where Butler herself got her start in writing. As a Dalit woman science fiction writer, Mimi has been pegged to an array of stereotypes. > For


 a very long time, it has been impossible to be a writer in > science fiction internationally if you weren’t white, or > especially if you weren’t a white man. Mimi Mondal > Aliens 


always somehow end up in the United States even if they > don’t know what the US is. Completely different universes like > Star Wars or the Middle Earth, which have nothing to do with 


our > world, are inhabited by white people, as if people like us don’t > exist. Mimi Mondal Mimi’s ‘punk Dalit girl’ persona is a lighthearted but emphatic take on stereotypes in


science fiction. > Punk culture came from the working classes. It came up as a > rebellion to the mainstream ‘respectable’ culture. Mimi Mondal > In science fiction, there are the 


sub-genres of Cyberpunk and > Steampunk. What these ‘punk’ suffixes are doing is that they are > telling brave, path-breaking, and subversive stories. As a Dalit > person, this 


sensibility really resonates with me. We have to fight > for our place every day. Mimi Mondal VIDEO EDITOR: Ashish MacCune _(__THE QUINT__ is now on WhatsApp. To receive handpicked


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