The Public Personal
When your life is lived out on the digital space, where does the public end and the personal begin?
Fashion
Rebirth
I’ve been taking tentative steps towards normal life (or whatever that looks like) in 2021. Is this a rebirth?
The Story Your Body Tells
I wore this to an event on inclusivity. A stranger said they’d seen me at the event & thought, “She’s doing it for the attention.” That they’d later read my blog, learnt of abuse I’d survived & decided I deserved to dress as I liked. It angered me. Dressing as…
Saritorially Yours
On body policing & the censorship of our personal stories because of it.
Blotting Paper Art
I love colour. Bright, vibrant hues lift my mood. What’s on the outside is connected to what’s on the inside and I like them in harmony. I’m a summer child. A Mumbaiker lives with a permanant layer of humidity on the skin. And that’s as good as my city hugging…
Parting Gifts At Christmas
This post was written on Christmas Day, 2020. This picture is one of the last ones taken in December 2019. I had a Christmas Eve date (hence the colour theme). It was with someone I’d matched with on the same day I had a run-in with my past. I would…
Fierce Butterflies
People tell you who they are, in their reaction to your most honest self.
New Breath, New Life
What if the choice of good and evil is actually about choosing healing over pain?
The Phone Call
My truth comes calling,on an international phone callSounding exactly likeevery other person who thinksthey have something important to say Except this one always doesFor sure, her words are truth,her truths truer.She thinks I need to be better,work harder, be smarter at my job I know, I know, I haven’t done…
Statute Of Limitations
A book I’m reading features a couple. The man supports the woman’s independence, teaching her vital skills that help her break gender shackles. He also cheats, a trauma that dogs the woman for years even as she finds success. Much later, they work together in a war against a brutal…