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Subaltern Pavilion

A Neuro-Socio-Political Consultancy

Subaltern Pavilion is a consultancy rooted in the perspectives of historically marginalized and underrepresented communities, offering Neuro-Socio-Political guidance on human experience shaped by socio-political and cultural systems.We do not look at people in isolation. We offer Multi-level Analysis which delves into Neurobiology, Psychology, Politics, Economics and Socio-Cultural scripts that help in understanding people interacting with specific environments.If you are seeking ways to do research, teaching, or client work that does not rely on capitalist extraction or colonial harm, you are in the right place. We are also accepting cases you'd like one-on-one consults on or even requests for coaching.Politics weighing you down? Feeling like your future is uncertain? Want to regain control of your life or your practice? Ask your consultant about Anarchist Calisthenics!

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About

At Subaltern Pavilion, consultancy is practiced as a form of liberation rooted in lived conditions rather than theory alone.We work with the reality that people’s lives, choices, and relationships are shaped by caste, colonial histories, political repression, religious control, and economic extraction. No one arrives outside of these forces, and no work, be it research, teaching, or care, can be separated from the environments and systems it is embedded in.Our approach brings together neurobiology, psychology, social context, and political science to understand how oppression is experienced in the body, reproduced through institutions, and negotiated in everyday life. Rather than isolating individuals or flattening complexity, we analyze these tensions, constraints, and contradictions that shape our lives.Subaltern Pavilion is guided by commitments to equity, erotic and reproductive justice, and the protection of marginalized and ancestral ways of knowing. We encourage work that refuses capitalist productivity, colonial respectability, and extraction disguised as care or inclusion.We stand in solidarity with BIPOC+, LGBTQIA2SP+, SWer+, MAPs, Bahujan movement and other historically silenced communities, not as an abstract gesture, but through accountability to their knowledge, struggles, and survival strategies.Subaltern Pavilion is a space to think, question, and act without erasing harm, desire, or power, where sexuality, governance, and social life are examined together in pursuit of more livable futures.

Currently servicing US, Canada, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Netherlands, Singapore, India

The Systems of Oppression we dismantle

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Meet your Consultant

Nishita Rao, MS, CSE, ECC, CBS

Nishita Rao holds an MS in Neuroscience with a focus on Behavioral Neuroendocrinology and a BE in Biotechnology, specializing in Brain-Computer Interfaces & Phytochemistry.She has been extensively trained by the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) on trauma treatment modalities, Office for Victims of Crime Training and Technical Assistance Center (OVC TTAC), National Criminal Justice Training Center (NCJTC) and End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI) on forensics, and gender and sexual violence treatment, case interpretations and criminology, Violet on clinical training (BIPOC,TGNC, LGBQ) and Equitable Care Certification (ECC) on sex-worker-affirming trauma-informed care. She is currently undergoing sexual assault and domestic violence advocacy training as part of the National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP).Nishita is also a Reiki Grandmaster, with a specialization in Chakra healing, Pranayma (Breathwork), Meditation and Body Mapping, with over 13 years of experience under her belt. She integrates Mandala Art Therapy with Indian Music Therapy, Aromatherapy with Tea Blending and Culinary Therapy.The Pavilion is explicitly kink-affirming, sex-worker-affirming, LGBTQQIA2SP-centered, People of the Global Majority-centered, historically underrepresented community-informed, NIRA-inclusive (non-immigrants, immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers) and MAPs.

Degree	Year	Institute	Location
B.E Biotechnology	May 2017	R.V. College of Engineering	Bangalore, KA, India
M.S Neuroscience	Feb 2022	State University of New York	Buffalo, NY, U.S.A
Certificate- Sexuality Educator	Apr 2025	AASECT	Chicago, IL, U.S.A
Equitable Care Certification	April 2025	Zepp Wellness	Orlando, FL, U.S.A

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Expertise

Her research experience spans across Sexology, Neuroscience, Behavioral Sciences, Anthropology, Dance Ethnography, Ethnomusicology, Tantra, Iconography & Iconology, Political Science, Linguistics, Molecular Biology and Paleoclimateology.Regarding her clinical experience, Nishita has worked with following presenting symptoms:

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Strategic Guidance

Subaltern Pavilion serves educators, researchers, therapists, counsellors, practitioners, kinksters, and sex workers. We offer personalized guidance through Mentoring (manuscript editing, conceptual clarity, feedback, resource curation, ethical and strategic problem-solving) and Case Consults (somatic healing, power mapping, multi-system analysis, ethical tensions, consent under constraint, and harm-minimization).This work is grounded in active engagement. I currently serve in consultative, advisory, mentorship and curriculum-development capacities across professional, educational, and community-based spaces, including:
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
AASECT (JEDI Board; Minor Attracted Person, BIPOC, Somatic Intimacy Professionals, Sexuality & Aging, Sex Educator, and Medical Sexology SIGs)
BDSM Reimagined Through Equity (curriculum development and LMS design)
SSSS (Intimacy Coercion and Aggression SIG)COUNSELLING / CONSULTATION NETWORKS
Intimacy Professionals
Equitable Care Provider Network
Kink Aware Provider Network
Liberatory Wellness NetworkRESEARCH GROUPS
Ace/Aro Scholars Support Network
Disability Academic Collective
Blindian Project: Reconstruction LabADVISORY BOARDS
The Feminist Code (Program Partner & Lead Educator)
Sex Positive Advisory Board
CARAS (Mentoring and Research Group)

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Booking

At Subaltern Pavilion, we follow an anti-capitalist sliding scale structured according to each country’s PPP and informed by a brief privilege questionnaire. To ensure transparency, a preview of the Anti-Capitalist Calculator we use to design these sliding scales is available via the link below.Consultations can be synchronous or asynchronous. Synchronous [LIVE] consults have an hourly rate. Asynchronous consults like voice notes, email or chat exchanges are project-based. This structure allows us to serve clients across time zones while maintaining focused, thoughtful engagement. If my availability does not match with yours, please check out the Asynchronous platform. It has been specifically designed to cater to people whose time-zones do not match with mine.Please provide as much of information as you can in the Notes section of the Booking Form.Steps for booking a synchronous [LIVE] session:
1. Find your Group by filling out the form
2. Decide whether you want a 30 min or a 60 min session.
3. Click on the Booking Link corresponding to that Group
4. Select the date you want the session
5. Complete the payment to book your session

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Contact Us

Any queries regarding the practice? Interested in seeking our services?
Drop us an email to establish an Introduction.

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