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Here Australian cartoonist Gavin Aung Than draws inspiration from Frida Kahlo and sets it to a story about a young girl with a unibrow to break stereotypes.
Australian cartoonist Gavin Aung Than draws inspiration from Frida Kahlo and sets it to a story about a young girl with a unibrow to break stereotypes.
Notions of what is considered beautiful don’t exist in a vacuum. They are regularly enforced and reinforced by television, movies, celebrities as well as ordinary people. Body hair is no exception: societies have rules around how much hair is acceptable, where is it acceptable and more. Norms around beauty and hair apply disproportionately to women because of the value placed on women’s beauty as a measure of their worth. Young girls are not immune to this influence either. This desire for smooth, hairless limbs and faces play themselves out in many ways and not confirming is not easy. It often leads to taunting and bullying, especially among adolescents, and many young girls find themselves compelled to remove facial and body hair to fit in.
In this comic strip, Australian cartoonist Gavin Aung Than adapts a quote by Frida Kahlo and sets it to a story about a young girl with a unibrow. Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter, was famous for her self-portraits, flaunting her unibrow and her fearless approach to life. Read on and find out how this young girl and mother deal with the girl’s desire to get rid of the unibrow.
Frida Kahlo’s image courtesy here
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She would serve everyone fresh food and serve herself the stale rice and curries from the previous meal. Some days after finishing the leftovers she was so full she would not even be able to even taste the fresh food.
When I married the first time, my MIL told me that during the Navratri the lady of the house should not eat stale food. ‘Gharatlya bai ni shila khau naye’ — in refined upper caste Marathi.
I was just 26, eager to please, not versed in patriarchy or feminism, and it seemed like a positive thing — respect for the goddess in woman.
But soon I realised she spent the remaining 356 days of her year finishing leftovers. And that I was expected to do the same.
We say that we live in modern times and talk on subjects like feminism, supporting your loved ones, encouraging them to follow their dreams. But how many of us can really say that they actually do that?
We live in a world where there comes times in everyone’s life when one has to make choices which will leave a long term impact in not just their life but on the lives of those attached to them.
Giving the ones you claim to love the freedom and space to make their own choices and the wings to fly is not only the right thing to do but sometimes its also the thing they need the most; without having to face the ‘guilt’ of living the life they want.