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You decide what can be done with my body, says the poet, but you forget that despite all of that, the ownership of this body is mine, not yours.
You take my body
and write on it.
your laws,
your commandments,
your to-do lists.
On my body you inscribe
what I must wear,
what I must not do,
what I must say.
in so many ways
and in so many places
–in the temples and the churches,
in the hospitals, and schools and battlefields,
in homes and in the courts of law.
Your world is my doll house
where you strip me naked
and dress me up.
And yet my body
never pleases you,
so you take a scalpel to it,
or a pen
and you rip it apart
in your newspapers and television,
in your facebook and instagram feeds;
round and round
like Chinese whispers
but you forget this simple thing
–it is my body.
Mine.
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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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