Little Revolutions

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

As women and non-binary/trans individuals we often hide, walk with our shoulders hunched and our heads down in order to make ourselves smaller, maybe if we mould and misshape ourselves we’ll become invisible to the male gaze but when we come back home to the comfort of our space, we still see ourselves reflective of our insecurities- sometimes we are unwilling performers to the outside voyeur and other time we are a performer to the voyeur in our head. And sometimes we reclaim ourselves with little rebellions that we live each day. In this project, I explore how we all fight the patriarchy and disrupt the male gaze in our lives everyday.

Krishanu, 2019

Shinjini, 2019

Teya, 2019