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Malala Yousafzai has spoken up for the education and empowerment of girls and women everywhere, but what has really changed?
When Malala said,
books and pens are
more powerful than guns,
I felt nothing.
Everyday, I lay my body
in darkness to find solace.
Even If my words no longer rhyme
I want the stillness in my eyes
to stop the seconds, and
the sunlight from
the sun.
Dear Malala, not to hate
but what to inflict, if I want to
stop my mind.
I couldn’t be brave but to sit
and afraid,
of a man
Who crushes my chest every night.
He taught me,
the ramifications of
the cerebrum, and
I ended up losing one.
I can pick a knife
and carve the words like ‘subtle’
because my body isn’t one.
It is evolving, a body of Chimera
a fiery breath, to make him
Suffocate and die.
I’m sorry Malala,
I’m not valiant with a book
because he never bestow-me-one.
Picture Credits: Malala.org
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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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