I Wear: My Tribe Identity
The saree expresses the feminine and the individualistic with strength and without aggression. It’s my tribe.
The saree expresses the feminine and the individualistic with strength and without aggression. It’s my tribe.
Real talk is dirty. It’s not that I have forgotten stage fright.
I got a painfully bad haircut. What could I do? Would throwing a tantrum change it? Instead, I learnt.
I hope the whirling never ends. Then I remember, nothing is endless.
The bonds between women are downplayed, disrupted and even villified.
I’ve never thought of myself as a dog person. I was chased by a dog in my youth and another one later. I’ve held my breath trying to quell panic through dog-owners insisting that their pets are harmless babies, that I shouldn’t worry and that anybody who hates dogs is…
I did this on Instagram. I was touched by the sensitivity of the questions asked. It helped me shift the heaviness of my heart.
It is the face of a woman that the world likes to call a Strong Woman. It is a tired look. A jaded look. A bored look. A dismissive look.
I thought of myself as ‘one of the boys’ because I didn’t identify with how femininity was practised around me. I’ve come a long way. I may even be one of the girls.
FOMO (or Fear of Missing Out) is not a good identifier of taste, let alone an actual description of personality.