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Women wear bras and underwear!
I was 20. It is time to do the dreadful act of terrorizing people and myself; dry my washed panties and bras on a clothesline in the terrace.
Is someone watching? I sneaked from my window. The neighbors were in their terrace drying Lapsi ko Maad and Masaura. Ugh! I can’t go down anymore. I turn my back to the window, and toss my black underwear and faded bra over the tap and leave wondering if the dark bathroom will show mercy to my wet lingerie.
Mommy, why can’t I dry my undies and bra in the sun? Sure, you can! Umm, I am not relieved with her responses. Still, why don’t I have the courage to walk to the terrace with confidence; unfold my made into a ball shape underwear and throw it over the clothesline with courage? Fuck, I can’t! Someone will be watching me, and they will assume I am an immoral person.
Anyways, I am fat and my underwear is size L. Such a huge grand ma’s underwear hanging will allow those people to form negative images about me? Maybe like a slut ( ouch).
The doctor tells me that I have a vaginal infection, and prescribes some ointment to smear on my vagina before going to sleep, and yes not to scratch it. Yikes! And she persisted that I wear cotton undergarments and dry them in the sun. WHATTT! Ugh, the sun again! The open terrace and lingering eyes start giving me a panic attack.
I scan the terrace; my eyes look for neighbors and those workers in the next building, all clear! Like a person who needs to rush to the bathroom to pee, I run to the terrace with a bucket full of underwear and bras! Mom screams from the kitchen, use the pegs, use the pegs otherwise the wind will blow away your undergarments like last week; last week; Ummm I don’t remember. I hurriedly picked up my underwear all tangled and scared that someone might see me, I fling one after the other without squeezing out the excess water. I did not even unfold it. It looked like the meat hung on a hook at a butcher’s meat shop. Someone is coming, I rush to the room. Left the bucket.
Now, I walk to the terrace, squeeze the excess water, pat it dry and drape it over the clothesline with love and care. I don’t care whoever is watching. If their eyes burn, let it be, If I am called an immoral woman, I will direct my finger to a neighbor whose wife hangs his v-shaped underwear in the sun without remorse.
What made me feel that way? What was I so ashamed about? Lingerie’s do not cause anxiety and apprehensions. Why did I hide the underwear under a towel? Is it because I was ashamed of my body? Is it because nipples and vaginas are those whose name cannot be taken? Were they controlling my body with their stare? Stares of unknown people!
Persephone.Mist
Troublemaker
LOOM Strategic planning 2017-2021
As a group of women who want to make a difference, we are new-age campaigners affirming towards sustainable women’s movement. Mainstreaming what is not, integrating what has been excluded. We desire to set platforms for us to weave our stories, thread our dreams, and bring the fundamental change that we foresee and aspire.
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Over the last thirty years women’s rights organisations, activists and feminists have used information and communications technologies (ICTs), including the internet and social media, to access and share critical information on their rights, organise and mobilise for activism and engage in advocacy. However, despite their benefits and potential to support women’s rights and movement-building globally, these new technologies have also created significant challenges for women’s rights organisations and movements, including the emergence of new forms of violence and abuse against women online.
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सन् २०१० मा स्थापना भएको यस गैर-सरकारी संस्था तान नेपाल (LOOM) लैंगिकता र महिला अधिकारको विभिन्न सवालमा कार्यरत हुदैआएको छ । हाम्रो यस कामको दौरानमा “महिला” भनेर हामीले केबल हाम्रो समाजमा बुझने योनी भएका महिलाहरू मात्र बुझ्दैनौं । हाम्रो “महिला”को बुझाईमा पारलैङ्गिक महिला र अन्तर्लिङ्गी महिला समेत पर्दछन्। हामी “लैङ्गिकता”लाई पनि पुरुष र महिलाको दईु कोष्ठकमा बुझ्दैनौँ । “लैङ्गिकता”लाई हामी बिबिधतापुर्ण ढङ्गले र कुनै सीवमत संख्या वा कोष्ठकमा बाँधिएको रूपमा हेर्दैनौँ । त्यसै गरी महिलाहरूको यौनिकता पनि विविध हुन्छ र हामी विविध महिलाहरूको यौनिकता सम्बन्धी काम गछौँ । महिलाहरु पुरुष सँग मात्र होइन, अरु महिलाहरूसँग, वा महिला पुरुष दुबै सँग, वा जो कोहि मानिसहरुसँग आकर्षित हुन सक्छ वा नहुन पनि सक्छ भन्ने विविधता पूर्वक द्रिष्टिकोणले हेर्छौँ ।
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के हि दशक यता इन्टरनेटले मानव जीवनमा ठूलो परिवर्तन ल्याएको छ । इन्टरनेट मार्फत् हामीले अझै धेरै स्वतन्त्रताको अनुभूती गर्न सके का छौं । हाम्रो अभिव्यक्ति गर्ने ठाउँ फराकिलो भएको छ । हामीले संसारका हरेक कु नामा रहेका व्यक्तिहरूसँग सञ्चार गर्नमिल्ने, सूचना आदानप्रदान गर्नमिल्ने भएको छ । अनुसन्धानका अनुसार इन्टरनेटले महिलालाई आत्मनिर्णयको स्वतन्त्रता प्रदान गरेको छ । सामाजिक सञ्जालमार्फत महिलाहरूले आफू लाई फरक ढङ्गबाट प्रस्तुत गर्न सक्ने भएका छन् । समाजले तोकिदिएको दायरालाई चिर्दै आफ्नो अभिव्यक्ति राख्न सक्ने भएका छन् । प्रेम सम्वन्धहरू बिस्तार गर्न सक्ने भएका छन् । विभिन्न विषय र सूचनामा पहुँच पुगेको छ । महिलाहरूका लागि इन्टरनेट आफ्नो यौनिकतामा रमाउने थलो पनि बनेको छ ।
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यस संक्षिप्त अध्ययनले इन्टरनेटका प्रयोगकर्ता महिला र किशोरीमाथि प्रविधिको माध्यमद्वारा हुने विभिन्न प्रकारका भेदभाव र हिंसा किन यौनिक प्रकृ तिका हिंसाको निरन्तरता हो भनी अवधारणागत पुष्टि गर्दछ । नेपालको बदलिदाे राजनीतिक परिवेशमा हामी जस्ता सामाजिक अभियन्ताहरू यस विषयमा सशक्त हुनुका साथै, सूचनाको जानकार र यो जटिल विषयको महत्वपूर्ण पाटो बन्नुुपर्छ ।
Skip to PDF contentOnline Violence Against Women 2018
The study attempts to examine understandings of online violence against women and girls as a continuum of offline discrimination. The common forms of violations, and the mapping of harm (violence against women) related to technology was adopted from “End Violence: Womenʼs rights and safety online”, Rima Athar and Womenʼs legal and Human Rights Bureau, Inc commissioned by Association of Progressive Communication 2013. The result of this research is expected to prompt discussions on online violence as a continuum of offline discrimination and violence, and inform activists about emerging trends in the ever changing political context of Nepal.
Skip to PDF contentEROTICS South Asia exploratory research: Sex, rights and the internet
EROTICS is an exploration of the internet and its multi-layered relationship with sexuality, rights and sexual expression, and is a space/place of practices and a network of people which started in 2008. Its purpose was and is to look into the obscure, the unexpected and the obvious. The internet is a fast-paced world, known for accelerations but also broken links, unfinished architectures, truly a network of networks. Nine years could sound like a long-term research project, but actually it is only enough to just land somewhere.
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