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Am I a hero or a victim, struggling to fight in a men's world that gives women few rights over their own lives?
Living in a men's world
I was born,
Happiness aside,
The world only mourned
And all I thought was, I am falling.
It’s school time now,
Excitement aside,
My brother is allowed to grow
As I grow up a girl,
Insecurities aside
I am not allowed to unfurl
When my bleeding periods started,
Comfort aside,
No help or knowledge was imparted
No school, no college I can go to
Information aside,
I am taught just how to prepare dough
As a grown up girl, I am forced to marry
Choices aside,
Traditions, norms, rules and babies is all I carry
Work on the field, work in the home
Incomes aside,
Sitting beside the window, my hair I comb
I die in pain, still nobody cares
Humanity aside,
I am lonely amongst all these game-players
I am beaten black and blue, day and night
Sanity aside,
Through silence as I am asked to handle these fights
As I sleep beside a broken future
Hopes and faith aside,
Through the chaos I try to smile, to nurture
I am falling, I am crawling
This world decides my fate: wrong and right
Am I the hero or the victim who loses, struggling to fight?
The cycle continues I wonder as I die
The do’s and don’t’s are scripted before hand
Who will change the trajectory?
The story of this only Mens-land…
Pic credit: Rafa Puerta (Used under a Creative Commons license)
A Development Communication & Social Work professional working in the field of gender, health and technology for grassroots. A Doctorate in participatory communication for development. A Feminist to a Human Right Activist, stressing on convergence & read more...
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Dear Women’s Web Community Member,
You may have wondered at our being on the quieter side during the last couple of months. Thank you for your patience, and we wanted to come back to you with a detailed note on what’s been happening at our end of things.
When we first began Women’s Web, as a blog from one woman’s desk along with a few like-minded souls, little could we have imagined the heights that it would soar to. Over the years, Women’s Web has published over 20000 stories (almost all by women), empowered countless women with the ideas, community and resources to chase their dreams, employed hundreds of women in core and project-based roles, and in the process, emerged as the OG women’s community in India. It has also inspired many others to build communities of a similar nature, all enabling women (and other-underrepresented groups) in their own ways.
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