Check out 16 Return-To-Work Programs In India For Ambitious Women Like You!
Harish Iyer remembers Suzette Jordan as he recalls her story at TEDx Talks.
Harish narrates Suzette’s tragedy in first person. Suzette Jordan was gang raped in Park Street in a moving car on February 6, 2012.
As she fought for justice, the society, the state and even the court of law humiliated her. People were judgemental about her character and made misogynist remarks. Her identity was reduced to the “Park Street gang-rape victim”. Suzette bravely retorted, “I am not a victim. I am a survivor.”
Suzette Jordan died of encephalitis on March 13, 2015 and her rapists were found guilty and convicted in December last year.
Her story, recounted by Harish, holds a mirror to the prejudices our society holds against a person who has been raped. The burden of guilt is placed on the victim rather than those who are guilty of perpetrating the crime. Suzette’s story needs to be retold because in Suzette’s own words, “Maybe it’s not about the happy ending, maybe it’s about the story.”
*Harish Iyer is an LGBT and women’s right activist and a survivor of child sexual abuse.
Watch the video here.
Cover image via Facebook
read more...
Women's Web is an open platform that publishes a diversity of views, individual posts do not necessarily represent the platform's views and opinions at all times.
Stay updated with our Weekly Newsletter or Daily Summary - or both!
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.
Please enter your email address