Patriarchy

Overview "Performance and storytelling have always been powerful tools in challenging injustices. However, for women, the intersection of culture, tradition, patriarchy, and race often plays a significant role in shaping their self-esteem and perception of body image. Focusing on South Asian women, I delve into this topic through interviews, field observations, and a personal book of Spoken Word, essays, and poems, supplemented by an activity guide for Desi women to share their own narratives. My aim...

Overview "The essays that make up the body of this memoir have been written over the past several years. They are an attempt to make sense of a time when women and children were not protected and were subjected to the supremacy of a patriarchal society that centered and privileged white males. This was not a long-ago time. In my small hometown of Winthrop, Massachusetts in the 1970s, secrets and shame experienced by a family were a family's business. The institutions that were meant to protect and...