Deconstructing Woke Activism
Nidhi Rao Belman |
TEDxYouth@AKAHyderabad
• February 2019
Nidhi Rao Belman’s talk, titled “Deconstructing Woke Activism,” attempted to address the cynicism around social media, while redistributing discourse from what’s trending, to what’s relevant. A strikingly erudite law student, Nidhi touched on landmark moments in India’s civil rights movement, such as the annulment by the Supreme Court in 2018 of Section 377 which criminalized same gender sex. She pusher her listeners to ‘think global, act local’, avoid misinformation, and independently investigate opinions and movements before propagating them as “woke.”