Spaces for learning must be available with dignity and confidence.
This year’s batch of GutsFellowship (GutsFellowship) with nomadic-denotified, migrant, Adivasi, and Bahujan youth is gradually taking shape. After participating in the residential camp and the vibrant Jayanti celebrations, these young people completed an intensive full-day workshop. The training on MediaGaze explored how to develop a critical perspective towards media. What does it mean to critically engage with media? How do we build critical thinking around the narratives constantly pushed by media? The session unfolded beautifully around these discussions. Media can become the fourth pillar of democracy. At the same time, media can also function as a mafia of dominant power structures. It is therefore important to critically examine media through the lens of gender, caste, class, environment, and labour. At a time when the narratives of youth are being shaped and brainwashed by powerful media systems, creating spaces for such discussions becomes primary and necessary..
