Wacha Feminista

Carol (2015) dir. Todd Haynes

"I'm glad you've come. Meeting you has made my day"

"Oh, how pleasant and uncommon it is to make someone's day"

Let's start with the oldest wlw indian movie (i know of)

1. FIRE (Movie - 1996) : By Deepa Mehta; Sita and Radha are young Indian women whose husbands choose celibacy or mistresses over their wives. This leads them to form an intimate, passionate relationship amidst a close-minded society.

2. The Married Woman (Series - 2021- Zee5 and AltBalaji) : Astha sets out on a journey of self-discovery and meets Peeplika on the route. Astha sets herself free from the society pressures and boundaries when she finds an intense connection with Peeplika, something that she always longed for.

3. Ajeeb Daastaans (Short Film - 2021 - Netflix) : Geeli Puchi; The short film on Netflix anthology ‘Ajeeb Dastaan’ talks about caste, sexuality, privilege and patriarchy in a powerful way.

4. Sheer Qorma (Short Film - 2021) : This film by a Non - Binary director, Faraz Arif Ansari and starring a Non-binary character as a lead, is a romantic drama that showcases how love is judged in society based on gender and how people have preconceived notions about sexuality. It has Swara playing the role of a Pakistani-Canadian citizen who travels to India with her lover (Divya Dutta). But Dutta’s mother, played by Shabana Azmi, finds it difficult to come to terms with her daughter’s choices.

5. Margarita with a straw (Film - JioCinema - 2014) : A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.

6. Ek Ladkhi Ko Dekha Tho Aisa Laga (Movie - Netflix- 2019) : Sweety hides a secret about her true love and decides to marry a writer to please her father, Balbir Chaudhary. However, chaos ensues when she decides to fight her family and society to win her love.

7. Firsts Season 3 (FilterCopy - YouTube- 2020) : Ritu and Lavanya are two women in their twenties who start living together after their second date, finding themselves in a series of firsts as they navigate life, love and more during the lockdown.

8. The Other Love Story (Web series - 12 episodes - YouTube - 2016) : The plot, set in the late 1990s/early 2000s, revolves around the relationship between two girls in an era when there were no cell phones or internet.

9. Mismatched (Netflix - Series - 2020) : Has a plotline with a wlw character. Set in a college/university summer coding program.

10. Feels like Ishq - She loves me She loves me not (Netflix - 1 episode - 2021) : A closeted advertising associate falls for an out-and-proud colleague, but her subtle efforts to confess her feelings don't go quite as planned.

note : I copied the descriptions cause i was too tired and embarrassed to write my own, sorry.

and like how insidious it is to ask women to waste time, daily if you’re particularly hairy, with a fucking razor trying to look prepubescent. and like what an undue burden that is.

and there’s like… next to no posts about beyond the vaguely (or less vaguely) implication of pedophilia around this, SO mcuh of this serves other forms of opprssion besides misogyny. how being perfectly hairless is part of the hyperfemininity expected of trans women, fat women, and women of color. and to fail to shave is to fail to pass and meet whites supremacist standards of “real” womahood (or girlhood, I guess, since we’re all about de-aging the body by doing this).

we don’t talk about how shaving is an ableist expectation, not figuring into it how shaving can be difficult if not impossible to do with various disabilities. and how if you’re lacking spoons, shaving is a fucking terrible thing to spend them on. or how some people shouldn’t have fucking razors in their house.

and how this obsesssion with body hair extends its tendrils out to demonize ANY hair on women so that intersex women or women with other conditions that lead to increased arm or facial hair are like… doubling “failing” being women.

so like… i love making silly lil posts about loving bushy genital hair or showing off leg hair.

but i also think the expectation of no body hair rly extends out beyond just like… a symbol of some abstract feminist struggle. it’s obviously not like an issue that is high priority but i do think it is a point of intersection in a lot of forms of gendered oppression.

or just struggles in general. like…

I was a camp counselor at a science/nature camp when I was 16, for a bunch of 10 and 11 yr old girls. And one day while we were waiting around for the naturalist to come get us to go on the day’s hike, the boys cabin we were grouped with was exploring the area and overturned a log and found a salamander. One of the boys picked it up and they brought it over.

My girls all went “ewww, gross, keep it away!”

…right up until I said “whoa, cool, can I see it?”

This boy handed me the salamander and all of a sudden my girls were clustering around. They wanted to hold it. They were asking questions about it. They had stories of other times they’d seen a lizard or caught a frog or something. A couple of them went with some of the boys to look under another log and see if they could find another one.

Girls were found to have a higher interest that boys in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; and

Girls outperform boys in STEM subjects and score higher on numeracy and literacy tests; but

Only 12% of graduates with STEM majors are women; and

The word “man” was gender neutral and referred to both sexes until the 13th century

The female specific pronoun “she” was invented in the 12th century. 

The word “girl” was gender neutral and referred to children of both sexes until the 15th century

High heels were invented for men and were worn predominantly by men until the 16th century

From the mid 16th century to the 19th century boys would typically wear dresses until the age of 7

Until the early 1930s pink was considered the appropriate colour for baby boys and blue was the colour for baby girls

justice for leonila, an indigenous woman who was raped and murdered in her home

justice for diana plus demanding the government that sexual assault is equally charged for both men and woman justice for nadia. on internationals woman’s day nadia was found murdered by gunshots, she was a part of the mexican feminist movement. days before this she had shared a message on facebook in case anything were to happen to her. no one has been charged.

JUSTICE FOR ELIZABETH! a trans woman, activist for LGBTQ+ rights was missing for ten days and then found dead. PLEASE SIGN AND DEMAND JUSTICE FOR HER

https://helpmexico.carrd.co/

MORE PETITIONS:

she’s just minding her own business, bopping along, when maybe a classmate starts mocking her for having visible body hair. or she goes to a sleepover and someone points out that her legs look different from all the other girls’. or she walks in on her mom shaving and asks why, and the answer is “because a woman’s body looks nicer this way.” or maybe her mother or sister actually approaches her and says, “looks like it’s time you learned to shave that jungle.”

the point is, the day before that realization, however it happened, the girl didn’t give a shit about her hair. she put on shorts and tank tops without a second thought. she didn’t feel unclean. she didn’t feel like a monster when she looked in the mirror (at least not because of body hair). her hair didn’t stop her from riding a bike or climbing a tree.

only after someone draws her attention to it does she start feeling self-conscious and wanting to remove it. removal, in this culture, is never a choice made free of coercion. it’s never born of a girl’s own naturally occurring desires. the seed of shame was planted in her by someone else (family, friends, bullies, magazines, razor commercials) and chances are that seed will stay with her forever- a sinking realization that her body can be wrong, that she can look ugly or dirty even when clean, that a thing she never even noticed about herself before should be a source of retroactive humiliation.

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