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A hard-hitting poem about women's freedom & sexual assault...
Sneering wolvesEmerging out of darknessFaces you never saw, voices you don’t recognize
Pushing your way back into your houseBecause streets are for menWomen walk on them only during the day
What was the crime?And back into the house, but where was home?Access to someone’s body is access to their soul, to their homebut this was theft!To be punished with theftTo be punished by theft, of theft,To be punished after theft.
A faint voice reminds me“Told you, don’t leave home after it gets dark”“I never leave home alone, my folks don’t allow”“It is not right to talk to boys”“Too much make up gives wrong signs”“Not in our culture”“You should be quiet and must cooperate”“Forget that it happened, and move on”“All your and your family’s fault”
Reminders…Constant reminders…
Of being punished with theft,Of theft,By theft,After the theft,Over and over again.
A few days later, I hear, a little girl’s home was ransacked,This time during the day, at her own house.
Image Source: Still from the Movie Pink
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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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