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An I Wear post at long last! After I was liberated from my nude makeup modesty constraints a few years ago, I swung out to the other extreme to reclaim what has always been mine – a love of BOLD, BRIGHT, DRAMATIC, WHO CARES ABOUT THE RULES dressing and makeup.I…
Lipstick Under My Burkha is not feminism; it’s a revenge saga against men writ large on the silver screen.
I’m writing this post a little late since last week was such a flurry of activity. I performed at the Unerase Poetry against Drug Abuse event. And in the week leading up to it, I also got quoted in a Mid-Day story about using poetry to bring awareness to this…
‘Harriet the Spy’ is about a 11 year old girl who is gagged by family & system and forced into therapy. Reading helped me crystallise my own identity crisis.
I was quoted alongside other poets in a media story about powerful poetry.
Last week, after I performed a piece about women, I was verbally attacked & threatened by a man. This is how others reacted.
Yesterday I was introduced on stage by a misogynist host. After I performed a piece about womanhood, another man began harassing me.
I read ‘Carrie’ by Stephen King. In the same week, I received an invitation to a school alumni meet.
Paper Plane & coffee
I had a chance to get this off my chest last year. I’m so grateful for the stage giving me a chance to voice things that had been eating away my insides for too long. I’ve been silenced by well-meaning friends and others who are just inconvenienced by anything other…