Caste and Mental Health : Blue Line

THE BLUELINE:

The BlueLine was intially developed by Padmalatha Ravi, a therapeutic arts facilitator and artist, as a workshop space rooted in healing, resilience, and community building. Later Sri Vamsi Matta, an interdisciplinary theatre artist joined as a cofacilitator. At its heart, the BlueLine offers a safe and empowering space designed specifically for those from marginalized caste backgrounds, a place to be heard, supported, and understood. Through a blend of mental health tools, theatre, storytelling, narrative practices, and visual design, participants build strategies and connections to carry into their daily lives.

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METHODS OF UNBECOMING: A Practice Handbook for Caste-Sensitivity in Therapy

Emerging from the BlueLine’s ecosystem of workshops and community care, Methods of Unbecoming is a developing practice resource that seriously addresses the psychological and social weight of caste-based violence, exclusion, and intergenerational trauma.

The handbook is being built toward caste-affirmative and abolitionist approaches to therapy, facilitation, and collective healing, grounded in lived experience and shaped through interviews, workshops, case studies, and collaborative research with practitioners, artists, activists, and mental health workers.This first edition is a work in progress, brought to life by new BlueLine team members, Swetha, Ankitha, Pratham, and Vamsi. The project is supported by the BALM–SFL Mental Health Action Fellowship Innovation Grant, secured by Swetha on behalf of the team a grant that marks an important step in making this resource real and accessible.