Heat South Asia

Founded in South Asia, committed to climate justice across the Global South.

Heat is rising temperatures; but it isn’t just that. It is also a metaphor for a simmering rage, born from generations of subjugation. Women, especially those of us deemed “untouchable” and outcast, have felt this heat (and burnout) intimately.

Stories of Dalit and Adivasi women, two communities marginalized within and oppressed by the rigid caste-system, intersect in their shared struggle against systemic violence and exclusion. Though these women are crucial to our food systems and ecological balance, they remain underrepresented in climate discourse and in almost every other phase of life in South Asia and its diaspora.