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Why did no one tell me love was so easy...That I could indeed find it in my own body?
Why did no one tell me love was so easy…That I could indeed find it in my own body?
Mama, you talk to me of love And tell me how it feels like nothing else ever has Or ever will Makes you do unspeakable things Sends chills down your spine The whole drill But this entire scenario of love And feelings Comes from another being Mama, Am I not enough for myself Do I need someone to make me feel things? When everyone goes off to sleep And the lights are dim I try to make love to myself; I hold myself close And spill patterns of the galaxy Onto me I take longer showers And sing I spread colours onto sheets of paper Myself on sheets of cotton And become an artist – I am my own masterpiece I am my own Charming My hands finally feel like they belong And I gush over and over Why did no one tell me Love was so easy That I could Indeed Find it in my own body With my own body Tresses wild Bumps along my skin Something I had never felt before Mama, I just locked myself in a room Until I started feeling liberated Aren’t you proud of your little girl Who spelled her name on herself Over and over Until it meant me.
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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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