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Give me your hand and help me stand up because we are all in this together, always have been! Can't you see?
They told me to lower my voice,
Don’t speak unless you’re spoken to,
Don’t sit with your legs like that,
Don’t wear those clothes, are you mad?
They told him to stop crying like a girl,
Stand tall, be a man.
Don’t show your emotions,
If you feel anything, push it down.
They asked them how dare they love someone they’re not supposed to?
How dare you tell me that you’re not like everyone else?
Stop being delusional, it’s just a phase.
I feel like I don’t even know you anymore.
Since when did being honest feel like a mistake?
Since when did being open feel like a crime?
Since when did being vulnerable feel like an offence?
Since when did having opinions feel like a sin?
I have a voice, and I am screaming.
My head is not underwater, but you can’t hear me.
Stop telling me that I don’t matter because I do.
Stop telling me to change just because I’m different from you.
You’re threatened by me, I can feel it in my bones.
But how will you survive if you don’t let me grow?
Don’t you understand that I am your salvation?
That because we aren’t the same means we can be equal?
Why can’t you see that we need each other?
That we cannot live without one another.
So, give me your hand and help me stand up,
We are all in this together.
So, let’s raise our voices and fight for what’s right,
Equality for all, nothing less, no compromise.
A future where we can express our opinions and feelings,
A world where being human is the only thing that matters.
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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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