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Tatiana H. Chaterji ’08 was startled by the role she was cast to play in the between-acts skit of this year’s production of Ghungroo, the hugely popular annual cultural fest put on by the South Asian Association (SAA). Chaterji, whose father is Bengali and mother Finnish American, was slated to play “the white girl” who is rejected by her boyfriend’s traditional Indian family. She turned down the role...
...feel like I have to prove my brownness,” says Chaterji of her involvement in Harvard’s South Asian community...
...It’s awesome...I walk into those things and not have to explain everything. I feel so much solidarity with other mixed people,” Chaterji says. “When people’s identities intersect in the same way, when you have enough people like that, it’s enough to form a group...
...These groups keep getting more specific. The more specific you go the more comfortable it gets,” Chaterji says of groups such as Remixed or South Asian Women’s Collective, of which she is a board member...
...from discussion of traditional gender roles to a conversation about balancing sexual power with pleasure aroused more cynical views. “Heterosexual hooking-up is more difficult for feminists because it’s easier for guys to get off than women,” said Tatiana H. Chaterji ’08, RUS Women’s Center Coordinator. “I don’t think that women receive pleasure in the same proportion.” Cynics also said that the term “blue balls”—and its lack...