For Cringe Magazine's Issue 5 prompt - What is your relationship with rage?
Cringe's 5th issue reflects on the different forms of rage sparked by an era that's defined by intersecting crises and our personal relationships to it.
So grateful to be featured in the issue as a contributor to the magazine.
When questioned about my relationship with rage, I could say I rarely feel enraged. But there’s no way one can thrive without rage, so I did some introspection.
I was reminded of men, them peeing on the roads, staring and rubbing themselves on public transports. There was I filled with rage. Building upon that, I was able to pull up a few principles of Eco-feminism. Which basically states that domination of women and degradation of the environment is essentially the same thing, governed and suppressed by patriarchy and capitalism in whole. I am the biggest believer of eco feminism, there’s only one culprit, men and their entitlement.
Whether it’s as ordinary as going out of the house or the expectation to perform double the work at the same pay and even less of respect or the subliminal feeling of safety on an empty road than one with men around. Women make these habitual and ultimately survival choices and navigate through life every single day.
The other day on a pleasant visit to the Museum of Art and Photography in Bangalore, I saw the original print of goddess Tara and goddess Kali in their restoration room and I was struck. Goddess Tara, goddess of protection, a member of the 10 mahavidyas, came across as an icon through & through to me. Her violent form left me speechless, the poignant incorporation of the lotus motif, the burning man pushed under her feet. I knew that I had my visual inspiration.
Incorporating those emotions of anger and painstaking exploitation of the environment with the fiercest energy to fight back and stand up against the deep stemmed oppression, I present you Ugara Tara, a dream project with literally the best women @khushi @ashisha, without whom this could not have been possible.
