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Shifting attitudes towards
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#recon2019 @think.crea : 2019 invitation to build #MeetToSleep with #ActionSheroes - #allies collective action towards a new normal . Freedom from fear .pledge to never forget . #JyotiSingh .
#Repost #AkeliawaaraAzaad @dimaagkharabhai 💪 • • • • • • We don't need a WOMEN'S DAY to remind us how strong or capable we are. All we need is everyday hustle without being judged or questioned or any prejudice. More importantly we need to feel safe around, regardless of the time ! I hope we start campaigns around anti-rape and point the elephant in the room than shooting random quotes and offering stupid freebies to women on one day of the year to make us feel privileged or special. So here I start with myself by flaunting my Akeli. Awara. Azad. @blanknoiseactionheroes t-shirt. Please visit www.blanknoise.org if you feel the need to contribute to help the survivors or volunteer to spread the awareness! #akeliawaaraazaad #blanknoiseactionheroes
Excited to meet and march with allies in Bangalore during the #WomensMarch2019! Towards a future free from hate, violence and blame. #INeverAskForIt @thetimesofindia feature With #ActionSheroes and #Action Hero @eeshitak @sessigianoglio @gowthamsampathkumar • • • • • • #Repost @gowthamsampathkumar • • • • • • Women's march against the fear, discrimination, violence and hatred in the society. @blanknoiseactionheroes #akeliawaaraazaad #INeverAskForIt #WomenAgainstHatred #march4women #genderparity #feminism #stopvictimblaming #nomeansno #metoo #againstpatriarchy #againstsexism #againstsexualviolence #safesociety #peace #Bengaluru #ndtv #timesofindia
#Repost @ewasimone lends her voice! Across borders, across identities, reclaiming #AkeliAwaaraAzaad ✊⭐🔥 • • • • • • Akeli 🌟 Awaara 🌟 Azaad Alone 🦋 Vagabond 🦋 Free Akeli - Being in a state where everything and everyone in your life is an addition to your life; when they are gone, you are more, not less. Awaara - Understanding that all the borders are meant to be crossed, starting with those of your mind. Azaad - Starting every single day with the one and only question that is worth asking: why so serious? #akeliawaaraazaad #alone #vagabond #free #feminism #women #empoweringwomen #india #bombaytoparis #noborders @blanknoiseactionheroes
This Friday, @bmsitutsaha hosted #BlankNoise at their college fest! Students became allies in ending victim blame. New Action Heroes, Sheroes and Theyroes emerged! Thank you #ActionShero @gagana.jadhav, Serena and #ActionHero @gowthamsampathkumar for leading the way and all the students who built #INeverAskForIt on their campus. #SafeCampus
Shout out to the fabulous #ActionSheroes #ActionHeroes #ActionTheyroes #Kolkata year 2007 kitty funds are safe and strong. FYI kolkata team members would chip in Rs 10-100 every meeting to support project and campaign expenses locally. Total 1607/ INR ❤️🙏
Thank you dearest @anubhabhonsle ❤️✊🏼🦋 ! Stepping into each word . Giving it meaning. #HumSabAkele #HumSabEksaath #AkeliAwaaraAzaad #Repost @anubhabhonsle #akeliawaaraazaad 🌻🌸🌷 • • • • • • It was more than a few months ago that my dear friend @jasmeenpatheja sent me this t-shirt. It lay in my cupboard stacked between loved and unloved clothes. I saw many women wear it in the interim and articulate so effectively what the words on the t-shirt (अकेली आवारा आज़ाद ) meant to them. They spoke for me too. I agreed with everything they said but I couldn’t embrace or own those words in the truest sense possible. I did not want to be called अकेली it meant for a long time—to be alone—and it creeped into loneliness, isolation, void, gulfs. It wasn’t physical solitude but as Olivia Laing says it is a state difficult to confess. The journey to think of अकेली as self, fulfilled, complete, enough, unhinged, not a state of lack has been a long and continuous one. Am sure it’s true for men as well but female aloneness, as Laing says often carries with it a whiff of strangeness, deviance and failure. And to overcome that miasma and to shine this bright needs a post, a selfie, a pat and a thank you, J. I go back to our chat by the bench in Philly so often. To anyone on this journey, happy to help but it’s all you eventually. I’ll write a post on the other two words the next time I wear this t shirt and feel this way :) #akeliawaaraazaad #blanknoise #mentalhealth #friends #solitude #alone #olivialaing #loneliness #sisterhood #female #single
#Repost @shravya2209 #INeverAskForIt • • • • • • Akeli. Awaara. Azaad.☀ It takes time and conscious effort to be comfortable in your own skin. It's a process. On some days, you dislike some things about yourself and that's okay. Realising that you love your own company more than anyone else's is liberating beyond belief. It also means that then you only allow those people into your life who add value to it. 🌈 Be as wild as you wish to be. Why tame your heart to fit other people's definitions of acceptable? Roam the streets, love with your arms open and with no fear in your heart, howl into the night, embrace all that comes your way, let your hair down and soar. 🌈 You don't have to be free everyday but just make sure that you are freer than you were yesterday. #akeliawaaraazaad 📸: @apppyyyy