{"id":27439,"date":"2024-11-19T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=27439"},"modified":"2024-11-20T00:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:43:01","slug":"find-yourself-a-triptych","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/find-yourself-a-triptych\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Yourself – A Triptych"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2023 was a year of reckoning and acceptance that my relationship with intimacy had changed due to abusive experiences. After working in the SRHR space, and going down many Reddit \/ Instagram rabbit holes, I realised that a lot of women, including myself, have never actually taken a moment to look at ourselves with kindness or explore our own bodies to know what we love. As we grow and experience intimate relationships, pleasure becomes taboo or is only okay as a performance for another person, rather than our right as human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When everything felt like an act at the cost of my happiness, I imagined this illustration and series, to make it okay for myself to take space, to heal from the trauma of past relationships, to take ownership of my pleasure, and to learn to love every bit of myself again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Your Valentine<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Find Yourself<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Not Your Valentine<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Illustrations by Suryaa Rajan<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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