Devangana Kalita is a feminist activist and a PhD student at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research work focuses on gender, memory, and labor history. She was arrested in May 2020 and imprisoned for thirteen months by the Indian state, charged under a draconian anti-terror law for her participation in the peaceful protests for equal citizenship that demanded the repeal of the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).