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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
❤️ students are allies in ending victim blame #INeverAskForIt. Received these photos from students at #MountCarmelCollege after a talk / workshop . Made our day and week and month! Unite towards building patriarchy free campus . Build your own #INeverAskForIt. Dm for further deets . ❤️
Do you remember what you wore when you experience sexual violence ? What makes women and girls across the world , remember ? #INeverAskForIt
#Super #ActionShero and #AkeliAwaaraAzaad @gagana.jadhav refuses to let fear conquer her! Here's to being truly #AkeliAwaaraAzaad, #fearless and #free ... Remember the time when you were a kid and you thought that you could have the world at your feet? The countless dreams of fantasy that you had for your future self? But slowly reality hit you and you grew into a conformist? You gave into bits and pieces of societal norms that you didn't think were too important at the time. Then, one day you came to notice that you're all grown up. You take a good look at yourself and think that this is it. The point of no return. Now all of a sudden, you start to sound like your own parent. You're too scared to walk alone in your very own neighborhood, you're extra cautious about what you're wearing, where you're going, who you're going with and why you're going there in the first place. The biggest misfortune is that we put restrictions on our own selves as time passed. We chose this life of confinement because we let fear conquer us. Our country has given us a right to freedom. Now it's truest extent is debatable but, why not break out of this illusion to truly explore your lives and enjoy it? ... #ActionSheroSpeaks #AkeliAwaaraAzaad #FearlessAndFree #INeverAskForIt #WalkAlone ... T shirts available to purchase. LINK IN BIO
#AkeliAwaaraAzaad @kriticalconditionum #fearless in #nammabengaluru! 💪💪💪 ... I purchased this tee the day I was moving from Bombay to Bangalore, to start a new chapter, a new job and live my Akeli Awaara Azaad life. Taking this selfie from the streets of the beautiful city, Bengaluru. Simply wanting to walk through them with no fear, just being my Akeli Awaara Azaad self. ... #GirlPower #SheSays #WalkAlone #Walk Together #INeverAskForIt
✊🏼✊🏼super office team + super volunteer team = big dream = small steps= big change . #EndVictimBlame #INeverAskForIt ❤️