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A mother talks to her son, about sexual harassment in public spaces that women go through everyday. Even when women speak up against it, few passers-by respond to help her out.
#ShareYourStory is an initiative by Breakthrough to bring the conversation around sexual harassment into families; to get women talking about the harassment they have experienced with their family members, especially sons (or other boys and young men.)
Street harassment is an everyday reality for women. In buses, on the streets it is a common occurrence. Even when women speak up against it, few passers-by respond to help her out.
In this conversation, Rashmi Rao speaks about an incident of street harassment while travelling on a local bus. The incident both scarred her and taught her a valuable lesson on speaking up. With her mother’s assistance, they were able to call out the act of harassment immediately. But what she noticed was the apathy of the people around. No one else was reacting or helping them.
Through her experience, Rashmi gives us a message of standing up with women when they speak up against violence and harassment, especially when they are calling out a harasser. This narrative reminds us that we are all in this together and we need to stand together in order to bring sexual harassment to an end.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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