{"id":12241,"date":"2017-09-01T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T05:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=12241"},"modified":"2019-03-25T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T08:53:31","slug":"brushstrokes18-important-times-women-got-real-vintage-bollywood-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes18-important-times-women-got-real-vintage-bollywood-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Indian Teen Artist Reimagines Goddesses As Modern-Day Feminists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing to life five goddesses from across the world, 17-year-old Priyanka Paul from India has used illustration to reimagine these mythological women as modern-day feminists. On her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BFYuT5uhqOW\/?taken-by=artwhoring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, Paul gives each of her subjects a completely new look and back story, suggesting that they would be involved in current feminist causes both on and offline.<\/p>\n<p>Mythology shapes culture \u2013 it is one of the ways that entire societies outline their values and present their history. Women in mythology play an important role, but they are often represented in a one-dimensional way: as mothers, as creators, as feminine counterparts who mediate the hypernationalist messages perpetuated by the legends they inhabit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/artwhoring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul\u2019s work<\/a>, shown below, is a reclamation of these powerful women \u2013 not as flagbearers of tradition but as voices of progress.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i><em>We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing to life five goddesses from across the world, 17-year-old Priyanka Paul from India has used illustration to reimagine these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":12308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,1389,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-fiction-and-sexuality","10":"category-visualcorner"},"menu_order":897,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12241"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16661,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241\/revisions\/16661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}