Talk:Alissa Trotz

By Sachi Anjunkar

Alissa Trotz is a Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and the Director of Women and Gender Studies in the University of Toronto as of September 2022. She is also affiliate faculty at the Dame Nita Barrow Institute of Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She is a member of Red Thread Women’s Organization in Guyana. According to her university profile, her research interests include transnational feminist studies, Caribbean studies with a focus on radical intellectual traditions and feminist political economy, transnational migration and diaspora, social movements, political violence, history, memory and archives.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva or the Indian Government.

In 2021, she along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to Indian Diaspora

1. Trotz, Alissa. "Behind the Banner of Culture? Gender, Race, and the Family in Guyana." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 77, no. 1-2, 2003, pp. 5-30.