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Domestic violence doesn't impact the victim only! It affects everyone around the abuser. In this poem, a little boy recalls the first word he learned was, violence!
TW: Violence and emotional abuse
Domestic violence doesn’t impact the victim only! It affects everyone around the abuser. In this poem, a little recollects the first word he learned was — violence!
Violence is the first vocabulary — spoken and learned in whispers behind the thickness of shut doors.
Violence is the continuous flicker of television in a dark room, sometimes.
Violence is calling Ma after a sudden scream.
Violence is also a pair of noise-canceling headphones blasting metal rock.
Violence is a bout of crying while watching a comedy film.
Violence is also the anticipation of reconciliation.
Violence is a perpetual distraction at school.
Violence is Ma’s generous smile under her bluish eyes.
Violence is opening the door to no one, even after the bell rings multiple times.
Violence is a violent wish to become an adult just for the night.
Violence is the urge to stop violence through violence.
Violence is Baba’s milk, like laughter at a sexist wife joke.
Violence is the temporary pause in violence when guests come over.
Violence is understanding violence before learning to spell it.
Image source: Still from the short film Son Saves Her Mother From Being Abused
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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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