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The Editor's Pick - sharing my favourite articles on Women's Web this month
Continuing the ‘Best of the month’ picks we began from February, here are some of my favourite pieces from Women’s Web for this month. Enjoy reading them if you haven’t before, and if you have, revisit and drop the writers a note on what you think!
A Son Like Krishna: An Indian mother on her journey to accepting her son as gay
Feeding the Thai Addiction: Love Thai food but hesitant to cook it at home? Fear not! Our resident foodie, Somali gives you a primer on cooking Thai food in an Indian kitchen
Why is Tuberculosis a gender issue? : A good read on how tuberculosis impacts women in India
Women in the Shadow of the Gun: An interview with Binalakshmi Nepram, who works with female survivors of violence in Manipur
A Janam within a Janam: Can a woman find freedom in a prison?
She must be black, no?: Possibly our most popular post this month, blogger Sunil reflects on his own marriage and the Indian marriage market
Happy Reading!
Founder & Chief Editor of Women's Web, Aparna believes in the power of ideas and conversations to create change. She has been writing since she was ten. In another life, she used to be read more...
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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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