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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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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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