#Southasian feminist

[beenasarwar]

Southasian feminist Kamla Bhasin: Still turning walls into bridges

After the iconic Southasian feminist passed away in 2021, several organisations teamed up to acknowledge individuals who take forward her mission of upholding human rights across Southasia, ensuring equality, safety and dignity for all. By Neha Kirpal / Sapan News Network “Being a woman referee doesn’t stop me from showing a red card in a men’s tournament,” beamed the pioneering Bangladeshi…

[lanapatelxoxo]

#logkyakahenge 🙅🏽‍♀️🙉🤚🏽What will people say? Live your #truth 💯 Be sure to listen to my conversation with @disha.mazepa as we delve into some good #tea our #podcast #episode is now live! Major thank you to Disha and to @rukusavenueradio for this opportunity to share my lived experiences. #tuesday #tuesdayvibes #tuesdaymotivation #tuesdaythoughts #transformationtuesday #desi #dougla #indocaribbean #namaslay #southasian #indian #brownskin #brownskingirls #liberation #feminist #freedom #trans #transgender #transisbeautiful #transvisibility #transgirl #lanapatel (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVziE5AJOr/?igshid=1f7cmen5pyidc

[foreverthesoniag]

This!! Speak-Kindly-to-Yourself- 💕✨• #ART BY @bydivya • • • • • • •#art #lineart #artistsoninstagram #illustration #dailydrawing #feminist #feministart #women #womenempowerment #forwomenwhoroar #womenofillustration #desiart #plants #procreate #mentalhealth #selfcare #selflove #bekind #indian #southasian https://www.instagram.com/p/BtWJwLxgtVQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tth5l1mhvi40

[mixdgrlproblems]

There are things we don’t say. ...Like how the #mixedrace kids don’t really belong. Or how the white mums were never wanted. Or how the dark dads were despised. Or how the single women were pitied. How the divorced women were scorned. How the men always got away with it. How love didn’t matter but family did, and how they weren’t always the same thing. ... In #SouthAsian communities silence is the universal language. My aunty told me to be quiet enough times growing up to know that it’s my job to hold my tongue. ... But there are things I want to say. ... Like do I still belong? Will you love me anyway? Can we talk about sex? What makes a family if children aren’t in it? Can I call this place home? ... Season two of the Masala Podcast is now live and I’m thankful that the conversations I’ve been dying to have are being spoken out loud somewhere. That maybe we don’t have to hold our tongues anymore. ... Listen to Season 2 exclusively on @spotifyuk . I was lucky enough to be interviewed for it with a legion of women who are all changing the universal language. ... #MasalaPodcast @soulsutras * Salma El-Wardany is a BBC Presenter/Writer/Public Speaker/Business Owner & loud and proud feminist of #Egyptian #Irish & #DesiMuslim descent. Check out her page for some gems. 🇪🇬🇮🇪🇮🇳 #beautytuesday #mixedgirl #mixedgirlproblems https://www.instagram.com/p/CG3MfCnFR3O/?igshid=1t289oyncgdwm

[xpectmiracles]

Beauty & Brains 💋 "Surround yourself around people who are really good & really passionate about what they do...positivity & passion make a powerful combination." Wardrobe: @stylushcouture @arunasethdesigner @payalia PC: @dharpooja . . . #makeupartist #southasianfashion #bridalbeauty #designer #couture #ladyboss #southasians #feminist #bossbabe #instalove #designer #fashion #bollywood #sparkle #photoshoot #beautyblogger #doers #believers #abitious #passion #candidshot #behindthescenes #photography #potd #victorious #motd #makeup #makeupbykarishma (at New York, New York)

[bharatlivenewsmedia]

For May Day, a Call to Defeat Gender, Class and Caste Divisions Among Workers of Southasia

For May Day, a Call to Defeat Gender, Class and Caste Divisions Among Workers of Southasia

For May Day, a Call to Defeat Gender, Class and Caste Divisions Among Workers of Southasia The last Sunday of April this year marked the ninth anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Dhaka. It was also the birthday of late Southasian feminist activist Kamla Bhasin who always stood for workers’ rights. The Southasia Peace Action Network, or Sapan, organised an online gathering…

[liviaarts]

Jaishri Abichandani

Jaishri Abichandani

Southasian women’s creative collective in NYC, then in London. 

Overall I thought that the way the exhibitions were put together was really cool. Getting to see so many artists’ work together in the same space adds to each piece, and also makes a collective whole on it’s own. 

Feminist work, and spaces for feminism. Social Justice and Foundations… Ford foundation… Dots not connected in social justice, foster care/homelessness stuff/women’s rights, LGBTQ+, BLM etc in their own fields. 

Perilous Bodies… Refugee boat filled with bags and bottles… set up the exhibition in terms of global migration. Pakistani artist… missiles… drones over Pakistan. Tiny architectural rendering if bodies… Light-boxes of bombed syria…. Iranian flags… made from military stuff. 

Wanted a political position to be taken immediately. 

Indigenous artist, Kyoto with Pendleton blankets, Kyoto as trickster, blankets as tricks (connects with the whole blankets smallpox thing). A cactus sewn from border security uniforms. 

David Antonio Cruz is in here! The pieces of black trans women who were killed. Ghost arm is the 6th woman that was killed while making the painting. 

Dred Scott black figures (shoot targets) Each profile marked with name shot by police. Work made in 1999…. Coffin with a police baton hitting it. 

The earth is the sacrificial mother, and if we don’t protect her she will destroy us…. Across an abstracted global map with marked places of mine destruction(?). I like the idea of looking at the earth as something living, I think that personifying it helps people to extend their sympathy to the earth and all her many giving aspects. 

Hindu fundamanetaist government… caste system… if could bring the case to the UN it would be able to help. 

Radical Love: Think through the idea of love being the antidote and solution to violence. Reclaim the use of the word radical (take away from the idea of religious radical) Depicting Queen Mary Scott… resistance fighter in Virgin Islands… statue of her sits at copenhagen. Piece called “I am queen Mary” Create a Sacred Space…. Ohh I love the bright red wall! Columbian Artist Lina Puerto(?) Glorious Altar 

Video… deep sea diving in a wheelchair (this video was super cool, I love anything with long hair underwater, it’s always so ethereal looking.)  Theme of motherhood and nurturing. 

Utopian Imagination: 

She said that in a way it was the hardest show to curate. How to think about utopias when all the utopias have failed. Also the added idea of everyone having their own unique utopia. An archetype that lives in our brains. A Glimpse of what to come. Space Mosque… a time where these shimmering UFOs appeared in the sky… generated a phenomenon where once a day everyone's prayers are answered, what would you ask? Ohhh hey there’s a work by Baez (one of my 20x20)…. Replicating colomnods… used…creation of ciguapas. Suspended work by Lee Bul (her futurism chandelier work).  Utopian freedom of flying, but then who gets to fly, economic and environmental Astronaut piece… black… behind it a spaceship and a deity… Trinadian artist. Refugee camps in space. Nubian Return… A great sci-fi piece. Beauty and joy of carnival and taken into the future. 

I thought that the future work was especially interesting, and particularly cool to get to see interpretations of the future side by side. I particularly love this piece, (Nubian Return) by Zak Ové. It reminds me a lot of steampunk (a style I really love) I think that mixing natural/historical elements with futuristic looking metalwork is really cool. 

Haha I love that she specifically mentioned that of 55 artists only 1 was a straight white guy. 

[beenasarwar]

Sara Suleri bows out

Sharing personal memories of the brilliant Sara Suleri whose genre-defying book Meatless Days inspired generations of writers, feminists, memoirists and dislocated Southasians.

Sharing personal memories of the brilliant Sara Suleri whose genre-defying book Meatless Days inspired generations of writers, feminists, memoirists and dislocated Southasians. Thanks Ailia Zehra at The Friday Times for asking me to write this piece. Published as a Sapan syndicated feature in TFT, The Wire, Geo TV blog, South Asia Monitor and The Print – shared here with additional pix and��

[shehzilm]

“Haya”

When thinking about the representations of women in popular culture, it often hits me how we are seen through the eyes of men. This time I wanted draw a woman looking at the world; she is unconcerned with us looking at her. The camera in her hand changes the power dynamic from subject to protagonist. The text reads, “I want to look at this world through my own eyes.”

[kaisersozay]

"I'm sorry fot not being good enuff" #drawing by me. Biro, coloured pencils on paper. Words by me. . . "Make me perfect perfect more perfect perfect + more + more = face goals × hair goals × nostril goals ÷ whiteness = more white / fair / light / white = 😍😍😍 Soooooo... CUT my lips CARVE my skin SLICE SLICE SLICE INJECT SQUIRT BURN MELT STAMP BRAND a new me So I'm 😃😃😃 & Perfect Flawless Featureless Tasteless" . . #ahmadiyya_creatives #feminismo #ahmadiyya_creatives #artistsoninstagram #sketch #art #illustration #illustrator #sketchbook #artist #artwork #instaart #artistsofinstagram #artistofig #artoftheday #artjournal #myart #creative #southasianart #southasian #instagram #socialmedia #women #society #hierarchy #nature #feminism #feminist #feminine #mindcontrol (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9KByuQFP1S/?igshid=1qmvb3x0fwcxz

[chuskipop]

"Yeh Halkat Jawani" All art is copyright Chuski Pop 2017 Illustrated by Sweety Repost with permission

[kadakcollective]

Meet the Bystander Editorial Team!

Aarthi Parthasarathy is a writer, researcher and filmmaker based in Bangalore. She co-founded Falana Films, a creative studio for art and design practitioners. She created the webcomic series Royal Existentials and has also written a number of short graphic stories, working with visual collaborators. Aarthi likes working with themes related to gender, politics and existential angst, and is also engaged in an ongoing research project on the history of comics in India, with historian Arun Prasad.

Akhila Krishnan is a multi disciplinary designer and director working across fine art, graphic narrative, moving image, projection design for live experience/VR and collaborative practice. Her interest and background in documentary film-making tempers her approach to her comic and illustration work, which often takes inspiration from real events; incorporating processes of interviewing, journaling and reportage. She has recently been shortlisted for the Laydeez Do Comics Prize (2018, UK). Akhila currently lives and works in London, UK.

Gopika Bashi works as the Asia campaigner for Oxfam International’s worldwide #sayenough campaign to end violence against women and girls. She has trained and worked with women from diverse backgrounds on issues related to access to justice, sexual and gender-based violence, gender and sexuality. She is an advisor for the FRIDA Fund – a global fund run by young feminists to support young feminist organising, and also serves on the Board of a labour and human rights organisation. Gopika is based in Bangalore, India.

Mira Malhotra is a visual artist and illustrator. She has a keen interest in DIY cultures, folk arts, social issues and music. An occasional author, Mira has contributed to design publications such as Creating Change by Kyoorius and British Council and The Trellis, NID. Her work has been featured across the globe. Mira is the founder and principal designer of Studio Kohl in Mumbai, India.

Sabika Abbas Naqvi is a performance poet, gender rights activist, translator, storyteller, and an alternative educator. She is the founder of Sar-e-Rahguzar: Poetry on the Streets. Her poetry revolves around issues of reclamation, subversion, sexuality, gender, and minority rights. She is a senior subject matter expert on Social and Emotional Learning. Sabika hails from Lucknow, and lives in Pune, India.

Shreyas R Krishnan is an illustrator-designer and educator from Chennai. Her work is rooted in research and takes on the forms of non-fiction comics, documentary drawings, and editorial illustration. Through drawing and writing, she tries to understand the ways in which visual culture and gender intersect. Shreyas teaches illustration at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Missouri, USA.

#BystanderAnthology #KadakAnthology #kadakcollective #southasian #geography #gender #identity #self #boundary #exclusion #bystander #meettheeditors

[shehzilm]

Women of the subcontinent

[chuskipop]

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[chuskipop]

#chuskipop #desi #desigirls #browngirls #india #indianpodcast #indiapodcast #feminist #feminism #women #popculture #desiwomen #indianwoman #bollywood #podcast #southasia #southasian #90s #comedypodcast #funny #comedy #talkradio #girltalk #entertainment

[chuskipop]

#chuskipop #desi #desigirls #browngirls #india #indianpodcast #indiapodcast #feminist #feminism #women #popculture #desiwomen #indianwoman #bollywood #podcast #southasia #southasian #90s #comedypodcast #funny #comedy #talkradio #girltalk #entertainment