Beauty
The First International Film Festival for Persons with Disabilities was recently organised by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment…
An experimental haircut, trying on a new pair of earrings, a bright lip colour, or even wearing a skirt when your legs aren’t waxed and walking confidently down the street: these are revolutionary acts of self-care and self-love.
While the video’s message of women finding self-worth through beauty can be construed as sexist (our worth can’t be reduced to mere beauty and looks), and it also has the token ‘fat’ woman that one can criticise it for, one also can’t deny that the loving and acceptance of one’s body remains a universal, daily struggle of probably every woman the world over.
Graphic designers from 18 countries across the world were asked to Photoshop a single image of a young woman, and…
This is not a cautionary fable about censorship and its excesses, but an exploratory essay on body image, using breasts as a starting point.
Why do we always assume that violence is done to us by someone else and not that we do it to ourselves quite easily and then have a million explanations to justify why we do not eat, why we use Fair and Lovely face cream, why we spend hours in the gym under duress, and why we focus incessantly on how much one has gained or lost in kilos and not in a metaphysical sense?
[slideshow_deploy id=’2632′] We want what we see, And imitate the girls on TV, and we get over-awed, by an IMAGE,…