Lockdown Style for Survival
Lockdown is on. I’m showing up for it in style.
Navigating complex emotions of jealousy, ambition, insecurity, joy, fear, peace, anger, happiness, betrayal, contentment, disappointment, love.
Lockdown is on. I’m showing up for it in style.
Art showcases vulnerability, makes honesty accessible, believable, livable.
I once sent flowers to a boyfriend. He called me desperate & cheated on me. It was toxic masculinity feeling so threatened by flowers that he felt he had to punish me.
Postcards to #StorySeekers with love from @AlphabetSambar
Solidarity is seen as a quality used to protect wrongdoers from consequences. Everyone is made to participate as a virtue.
A saree can also be a skirt!
“Eena, I sang for an hour today”, says Lolita to her imaginary friend.
There is a sense that the Saree Wearers’ Club is an exclusive one, limited to women who are married or of a certain age, have a certain body shape and even they wear it in certain ways & on occasions only.
I went looking for sunrises years ago. What I found instead was so much beauty and joy in the mayhem.
I read ‘Room’ and ‘See What You Made Me Do’ to understand why men hurt women. They were triggering but they helped me find strength.