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Exploring the many facets of being a woman.
Embodying me
womanhood
days
Always in my head, a sense of being distraught
Over- brimmed with one color, an unassuming rust red
Mundane chit chat, litters into afterthoughts
Scribbling screams tethered tight on farm stands
nights
A photo collage experiment, cacophony
Every square inch, a body sucked into vacuum
Calculated planetary moves, leave me a speck in cosmic astronomy
Rendering days into nights, an assemblage of salty atoms
afternoons
Candles light up, one for each year of my age
Unlearning seasons, attempts to discard my embers into baskets
Become an installation, a garish backdrop to a painted stage
Sharing an affinity, with my demons secret ghettos
siesta
Embodying womanhood
Like a leech to the walls of my lungs
In the sores of my incurable tongue
In harnessed flames making bonfires easy to light
Into a debris of embers that crackle
into desires that I can collect
souvenirs line up
for each year
of
embodying me
embodying womanhood
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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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