There is no need to cheer on the compromises women make on an everyday basis at the cost of sabotaging themselves.
Tag: patriarchy
Call Me Raju
This is the story of a woman who didn’t give up her name. A woman who never changed herself for anyone else. A woman who did not let her …
A Foreigner in My Grandmothers’ Country
Delving into my limited capacity to understand the social and political processes of the lives of my two grandmothers.
Shame
A poem on how society makes a woman feel guilty over her own sexuality.
Small Town Girls, an Intimate Portrait: ‘We Are Not Like Them’
Growing apart from parents is a ritual of growing up. Just like a thread sways a kite, our relationship with our parents is also a tug of push and …
The U-Turn of the Century
'Slowly the blackness will spread and envelop all that do not conform.'
‘I’ll Cry Tonight’
To this day, whenever I laugh a lot while joking about with my friends, these words from my mother come back to me.
The Necklace
A poem on breaking generations of women’s bondage.
When Patriarchs Attain Glory by Doing the Bare Minimum
My grandmother worships her brother to this date because, according to her, he gave her a home which was not abusive. Not loving or supportive, just 'not abusive'.
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Alludes to an Older Story of Controlling Women Artists
Britney Spears’s legal challenge of her father’s control over her estate brings to mind sculptor Camille Claudel, whose freedom was also limited by family members more than a century …