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Mother's Day, Satyameva Jayate, and an inspiring story from Bihar are some of the things we bring you in this edition of our weekly posts.
Mother’s Day, Satyameva Jayate, and an inspiring story from Bihar are some of the things we bring you in this edition of our weekly posts.
“To embed motherhood within a certain kind of marriage (heterosexual), a certain kind of relationship (monogamous), and a certain of family model (male breadwinner, female care giver) and project this as a blueprint for a ‘normal’ mother, marriage and family is not only untenable but also flawed.” – Of lofty motherhood and sinful sex work.
“I hope I raise a child who knows that he’s loved and special but that he’s not the center of the universe and never, ever will be.” A motherhood wish list.
Skin care?
Bhavana writes an impassioned post on empathy and the trauma of child sexual abuse.
The folks in this village plant saplings to celebrate the birth of a girl child. Way to go!
Out of the box – An alternate way of teaching art
Unmana writes on the 7 reasons why your website may not work for you.
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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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