#REPOST @lylarani_ with @get__repost__app Extremely thrilled and honored to finally unveil the cover of the pathbreaking anthology, Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia, edited and curated by the extremely talented @farahahamedauthor and published by @panmacmillanindia
It’s a hard work of 3 long years. I am highly honored to be one of the 30 contributors amongst @lisaraniray @shashitharoor @themenstrualeducator @rupikaur_ and others
AND to have my painting AADYA SHAKTI as the BOOK COVER.
It covers all the countries of South Asia and includes art, poetry, short stories, interviews and essays. It even incudes a menstrual dance. It has stories from homeless women, to trans people, to people with disabilities as well as interviews with entrepreneurs working in the area of menstrual health.
1. Please check the link in my bio to read more.
2. Pre-order your copy from amazon
3. Follow @farahahamedauthor for more updates and stories.
AND
PLEASE help share this book as widely as possible
Beacause PERIOD MATTERS! period!
More stories about my art work to follow soon..
STAY TUNED
#periodmatters
#periodsarenormal
#dignifiedmenopause
#dignifiedmenstruation
#panmacmillan
#bookcomingsoon
#endperiodpoverty
#breakingthesilence
#periodblood
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#lylafreechild #repostios #repostw10
Lest you think I gracefully ace all my Pilates classes @thepaddxb
@shaaziaq finds fun ways to challenge me every week. I shed the pathology of perfection a long time ago, freeing me to explore and play without expectations – and share what my personal fitness journey looks like.
Don’t forget to laugh, sweat and embrace the trembling legs and f*ck ups ✌🏼
#setyourownstandards
Lest you think I gracefully ace all my Pilates classes @thepaddxb
@shaaziaq finds fun ways to challenge me every week. I shed the pathology of perfection a long time ago, freeing me to explore and play without expectations – and share what my personal fitness journey looks like.
Don’t forget to laugh, sweat and embrace the trembling legs and f*ck ups ✌🏼
#setyourownstandards
Sleep deprived.
Photo @themiddleclasstraveler
From the archives of FC and me.
Handwritten notes – a binder! – and Polaroids from a Lakme campaign shoot. Circa 1999. What will the future make of this time capsule?
Hey kids.
She wandered everywhere, but walked lightly.
When I see images from my past, I smile for the woman I was. I wave affectionately, but I don’t identify with her.
As a society and culture we don’t talk about how important is it to carry your identity lightly. Youth is spent fighting for it, we spend years consolidating our personality and then amplifying it through cvs and social media to the extent, I suppose, the spoils of this internal war mean we feel obligated to carry labels around, like, forever.
But here’s the secret.
All those things you think you are, are barely scratching the surface. You think you are rash, shy, smart, an addict, a failure, a romantic, chic, plump, ambitious, sensible or utterly frivolous and fun. You project and talk about the version of ‘self’ you have decided fits the contours of your desires and abilities best in this world.
But who is the ‘you’?
These are all constructs of personality, sweet soul, they are your ego flexing.
And that’s fine.
As long as you recognize it. And you can set it all down, all these bits of identity we lash ourselves to, the soul crushing categories, when the moment calls you inward.
Can you set them down? (Accompanying gasping sobs are fine) Tip your black box open. Empty it out.
Set yourself free?
Don’t live small, my loves, no identity can contain the vastness of who you really are. You are not the assistant to the regional manager.
You are unclassifiable.
New from the Pilates series + @thepaddxb
This helicopter ain’t going anywhere but- but- slow mindful movements are way more challenging and rewarding than twirling away like an egg beater 🤪
#WIP @shaaziaq @thepaddxb
Intriguing public installation in Vancouver – someone sent me an image. It seems to have something to do with my role in Bollywood/Hollywood?
I remember seeing Douglas Coupland’s Gumhead outside Vancouver Gallery a few years ago. A seven foot sculpture of the artist’s head onto which passerby’s stuck wads of chewing gum. It was an impressive defacement.
These are slightly disconnected thoughts. I’m not encouraging anyone to throw their gum on this lovely floral sculpture but can any Vancouverite enlighten me further what it’s about?
Side note: in a world that is dispiritedly polarized and radicalized, Canada remains a beacon of diversity and inclusion. Oh, Canada 🇨🇦
UPDATE
Take a look at this cool Canadian initiative @fleursdevilles to know more
Intriguing public installation in Vancouver – someone sent me an image. It seems to have something to do with my role in Bollywood/Hollywood?
I remember seeing Douglas Coupland’s Gumhead outside Vancouver Gallery a few years ago. A seven foot sculpture of the artist’s head onto which passerby’s stuck wads of chewing gum. It was an impressive defacement.
These are slightly disconnected thoughts. I’m not encouraging anyone to throw their gum on this lovely floral sculpture but can any Vancouverite enlighten me further what it’s about?
Side note: in a world that is dispiritedly polarized and radicalized, Canada remains a beacon of diversity and inclusion. Oh, Canada 🇨🇦
UPDATE
Take a look at this cool Canadian initiative @fleursdevilles to know more
Aquarium season in Dubai
Vignettes (because photo dump is an unsavoury phrase) from an afternoon spent @jameelartscentre with wonderful company @greynoisedxb_1 talking me through the @fahdburki survey exhibition and then walking through the delightfully witty and layered @tausmakhacheva exhibit with my friend Hetal (@greynoisedxb)
I was left with one simple longing : to hide in the bathroom and emerge after dark. Can I sleep just one night with the art?
@jameelartscentre @fahdburki @tausmakhacheva @teible_
Vignettes (because photo dump is an unsavoury phrase) from an afternoon spent @jameelartscentre with wonderful company @greynoisedxb_1 talking me through the @fahdburki survey exhibition and then walking through the delightfully witty and layered @tausmakhacheva exhibit with my friend Hetal (@greynoisedxb)
I was left with one simple longing : to hide in the bathroom and emerge after dark. Can I sleep just one night with the art?
@jameelartscentre @fahdburki @tausmakhacheva @teible_
Vignettes (because photo dump is an unsavoury phrase) from an afternoon spent @jameelartscentre with wonderful company @greynoisedxb_1 talking me through the @fahdburki survey exhibition and then walking through the delightfully witty and layered @tausmakhacheva exhibit with my friend Hetal (@greynoisedxb)
I was left with one simple longing : to hide in the bathroom and emerge after dark. Can I sleep just one night with the art?
@jameelartscentre @fahdburki @tausmakhacheva @teible_
Vignettes (because photo dump is an unsavoury phrase) from an afternoon spent @jameelartscentre with wonderful company @greynoisedxb_1 talking me through the @fahdburki survey exhibition and then walking through the delightfully witty and layered @tausmakhacheva exhibit with my friend Hetal (@greynoisedxb)
I was left with one simple longing : to hide in the bathroom and emerge after dark. Can I sleep just one night with the art?
@jameelartscentre @fahdburki @tausmakhacheva @teible_
Vignettes (because photo dump is an unsavoury phrase) from an afternoon spent @jameelartscentre with wonderful company @greynoisedxb_1 talking me through the @fahdburki survey exhibition and then walking through the delightfully witty and layered @tausmakhacheva exhibit with my friend Hetal (@greynoisedxb)
I was left with one simple longing : to hide in the bathroom and emerge after dark. Can I sleep just one night with the art?
@jameelartscentre @fahdburki @tausmakhacheva @teible_
Vignettes (because photo dump is an unsavoury phrase) from an afternoon spent @jameelartscentre with wonderful company @greynoisedxb_1 talking me through the @fahdburki survey exhibition and then walking through the delightfully witty and layered @tausmakhacheva exhibit with my friend Hetal (@greynoisedxb)
I was left with one simple longing : to hide in the bathroom and emerge after dark. Can I sleep just one night with the art?
@jameelartscentre @fahdburki @tausmakhacheva @teible_
Vignettes (because photo dump is an unsavoury phrase) from an afternoon spent @jameelartscentre with wonderful company @greynoisedxb_1 talking me through the @fahdburki survey exhibition and then walking through the delightfully witty and layered @tausmakhacheva exhibit with my friend Hetal (@greynoisedxb)
I was left with one simple longing : to hide in the bathroom and emerge after dark. Can I sleep just one night with the art?
@jameelartscentre @fahdburki @tausmakhacheva @teible_
Vignettes (because photo dump is an unsavoury phrase) from an afternoon spent @jameelartscentre with wonderful company @greynoisedxb_1 talking me through the @fahdburki survey exhibition and then walking through the delightfully witty and layered @tausmakhacheva exhibit with my friend Hetal (@greynoisedxb)
I was left with one simple longing : to hide in the bathroom and emerge after dark. Can I sleep just one night with the art?
@jameelartscentre @fahdburki @tausmakhacheva @teible_
Vignettes (because photo dump is an unsavoury phrase) from an afternoon spent @jameelartscentre with wonderful company @greynoisedxb_1 talking me through the @fahdburki survey exhibition and then walking through the delightfully witty and layered @tausmakhacheva exhibit with my friend Hetal (@greynoisedxb)
I was left with one simple longing : to hide in the bathroom and emerge after dark. Can I sleep just one night with the art?
@jameelartscentre @fahdburki @tausmakhacheva @teible_
#REPOST @tinypricksproject with @get__repost__app “That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I went closer,
and I did not die.
Surely God
had his hand in this,
as well as friends.
Still, I was bent,
and my laughter,
as the poet said,
was nowhere to be found.
Then said my friend Daniel
(brave even among lions),
“It is not the weight you carry
but how you carry it—
books, bricks, grief—
it’s all in the way
you embrace it, balance it, carry it
when you cannot, and would not,
put it down.”
So I went practicing.
Have you noticed?
Have you heard
the laughter
that comes, now and again, out of my startled mouth?
How I linger
to admire, admire, admire
the things of this world
that are kind, and maybe
also troubled—
roses in the wind,
The sea geese on the steep waves,
a love
to which there is no reply?”
– Mary Oliver
Up on the wall – finally – a coveted painting by @iabadioupiko who plays with form and colour in a way that hits me in the gut.
This was my 50th birthday present. @angadchowdhry saw his exhibit @hatchartproject and carried my love for the work to hubby’s ear.
From @hatchartproject : Piko is a self-taught painter whose works draw upon emotional freedom through a cathartic effect method and evaluates humanizing psychological and philosophical studies.
Visceral in the same tradition of Basquiat’s work: worms it’s way to a place behind your eyes.
Love it.
I am excited to share that I’ve contributed a very personal essay about Menopause to this incredible range of essential stories by South Asian writers, poets and artists, now available for Pre-Order 🙏🏼
Repost: @panmacmillanindia
On this year’s #MenstrualHygieneDay we are proud to announce PERIOD MATTERS, a pathbreaking anthology about menstruation in South Asia, curated and edited by the exceptional writer-activist @farahahamedauthor
Pre-order today
#PeriodMatters #periodsarenormal #Menopauseisnormal
I am excited to share that I’ve contributed a very personal essay about Menopause to this incredible range of essential stories by South Asian writers, poets and artists, now available for Pre-Order 🙏🏼
Repost: @panmacmillanindia
On this year’s #MenstrualHygieneDay we are proud to announce PERIOD MATTERS, a pathbreaking anthology about menstruation in South Asia, curated and edited by the exceptional writer-activist @farahahamedauthor
Pre-order today
#PeriodMatters #periodsarenormal #Menopauseisnormal
So proud of my friend @nadiasamdani whose contribution in supporting and to propelling Bangladeshi art and artists onto the global art stage is exemplary and essential 🙏🏼❤️
#REPOST @dhakaartsummit with @get__repost__app Huge Congratulations to Dhaka Art Summit’s Co-founder and Director @nadiasamdani for being made MBE in the Queen’s Birthday 2022 Honours list. The MBE is the third-highest Order of the British Empire award, recognizing her contribution to global art philanthropy and supporting the arts of South Asia and the United Kingdom through Samdani Art Foundation and Dhaka Art Summit.
#queenshonours #queensbirthdayhonours #MBE #samdartfoundation #dhakaartsummit #womeninart #bangladesh #bangladeshiart #southasianart #nadiasamdani
