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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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If you want to get back to work after a break, here’s the ultimate guide to return to work programs in India from tech, finance or health sectors - for women just like you!
Last week, I was having a conversation with a friend related to personal financial planning and she shared how she had had fleeting thoughts about joining work but she was apprehensive to take the plunge. She was unaware of return to work programs available in India.
She had taken a 3-year long career break due to child care and the disconnect from the job arena that she spoke about is something several women in the same situation will relate to.
More often than not, women take a break from their careers to devote time to their kids because we still do not have a strong eco-system in place that can support new mothers, even though things are gradually changing on this front.
A married woman has to wear a sari, sindoor, mangalsutra, bangles, anklets, and so much more. What do these ornaments have to do with my love, respect, and commitment to my husband?
They: Are you married? Me: Yes They: But You don’t look like it Me: (in my Mind) Why should I?
Why is being married not enough for a woman, and she needs to look married too? I am tired of such comments in the nearly four years of being married.
I believe that anything that is forced is not right. I must have a choice. I am a living human, not a puppet. And I am not stopping anyone by not following any tradition. You are free to do whatever you like to do. But do not force others. It’s depressing.