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marenkae's review
3.0
3.5
My favorite pieces were The Photo by Reshnu Singh and Broken Lines by Vidyun Sabhaney!
My favorite pieces were The Photo by Reshnu Singh and Broken Lines by Vidyun Sabhaney!
lovegirl30's review
4.0
A powerful story that needed to be told. This is the story that is written by a wonderful feminist to bring to light the issue of sexual discrimination, rape, even brutal gang rapes and other horrifying things that are all too often happening in India. This book is a part of larger conversation happening around the country.
This is a collection of 14 different Indian artists, who tell their story or the stories of others. These stories are heartbreakingly honest. The invoke emotions, fear and explain what is making being women so hard. They are all wonderful graphic artist. The are finally, drawing the line.
The issues explored in this book are ones we are all to familiar with. This isn't just an India issue, this is a global issue that gets worse every single day. It is disgusting that sexual abuse and harassment is such a normal thing. We hear about new assault every single day. This book is cracking the silence and getting the word out there.
Graphic novels about political issues, or hard topics tend to get a lot of hate. People want to read fun stuff, the want an escape from the hardness of the world. This issue is something that we can't avoid. Every single human being on this earth needs to go out and get this book right now. We can't stay silent anymore.
To give you a better idea of the types of stories included I decided to include a list of topics discussed. Here are five of those topics.
1. Women who are raped by their husbands
2. Stories from a women who stopped shaving and waxing
3. A woman who is desperately trying to convince her boyfriend that she won't stand for a sexist ritual in a Hindu wedding.
4.Stories about the women in rural India
5. A teen from a middle-class family who decides to buy a fancy dress.
Check out this book. It is very important. I picked this book out at the library but I will be buying it very soon.
This is a collection of 14 different Indian artists, who tell their story or the stories of others. These stories are heartbreakingly honest. The invoke emotions, fear and explain what is making being women so hard. They are all wonderful graphic artist. The are finally, drawing the line.
The issues explored in this book are ones we are all to familiar with. This isn't just an India issue, this is a global issue that gets worse every single day. It is disgusting that sexual abuse and harassment is such a normal thing. We hear about new assault every single day. This book is cracking the silence and getting the word out there.
Graphic novels about political issues, or hard topics tend to get a lot of hate. People want to read fun stuff, the want an escape from the hardness of the world. This issue is something that we can't avoid. Every single human being on this earth needs to go out and get this book right now. We can't stay silent anymore.
To give you a better idea of the types of stories included I decided to include a list of topics discussed. Here are five of those topics.
1. Women who are raped by their husbands
2. Stories from a women who stopped shaving and waxing
3. A woman who is desperately trying to convince her boyfriend that she won't stand for a sexist ritual in a Hindu wedding.
4.Stories about the women in rural India
5. A teen from a middle-class family who decides to buy a fancy dress.
Check out this book. It is very important. I picked this book out at the library but I will be buying it very soon.
ljrinaldi's review
4.0
This is a good collection of different Indian (as in from India) women artists writing about sexual harassment, discrimination, and all the things that make life being a woman hard.
Fourteen different artists either tell their own story or the stories of those they have interviewed or known.
Most of the issues explored in these stories, women of the Western, European world would be quite familiar with, except for the issue of having to be white. In India, people are all shades of light to dark, and unfortunately the cosmetic industry, and patent medicine industry makes it a point to tell women that they need to be lighter, paler, and that if they only used their products they would be too. Although the Western world looks down on people of color, there is no industry trying to make them lighter skinned, that I am aware of.
Sad that sexual harassment and assault is pretty much a world wide problem. This book is being distrbuted in North America by a comic book company out of Ontario, Canada, called Ad Astra Comix. They were touring locally, and said when they saw this collection that they had to publish it. I'm glad they did. Ad Astra slogan is "The Panel is Political".
Fourteen different artists either tell their own story or the stories of those they have interviewed or known.
Most of the issues explored in these stories, women of the Western, European world would be quite familiar with, except for the issue of having to be white. In India, people are all shades of light to dark, and unfortunately the cosmetic industry, and patent medicine industry makes it a point to tell women that they need to be lighter, paler, and that if they only used their products they would be too. Although the Western world looks down on people of color, there is no industry trying to make them lighter skinned, that I am aware of.
Sad that sexual harassment and assault is pretty much a world wide problem. This book is being distrbuted in North America by a comic book company out of Ontario, Canada, called Ad Astra Comix. They were touring locally, and said when they saw this collection that they had to publish it. I'm glad they did. Ad Astra slogan is "The Panel is Political".
surabhi_11's review against another edition
4.0
This book came to me as an unexpected gift from a dear friend. A comical sneak peeks at 'some' of the issues of women in modern Indian society. Amid many amusing articles that are published on the issues that women face in modern society in the Western media, this book was a refreshing read because of its Indian context. It is a book that doesn't offer any solutions to any sensitive issues, it just requests the reader to draw his/her attention towards the sensitivity and reality of these matters.
I must congratulate the illustrators who put in so much thought in writing about 'just ordinary things' that matter. We need many more illustrations on the issues of gender and sexuality. Some suggestions are:
1) a comic strip showing how a couple and their family reacts when they have a hermaphrodite child, 2) an illustration of women and men exploring their sexualities
3) stories of women who are raped by their husbands
4) stories of urban men who continuously struggle to maintain the delicate balance of chivalry and to prove the point of gender equality
5) stories about the women in rural India who spend most of their days on farms, kitchens, homes but still somehow loses all their endurance and strength when beaten up by their drunk husbands
6) lives of women who don't want kids, don't want to get married
7) the stream of consciousness of a woman trying to convince her modern liberal boyfriend that she won't be able to have the sexist rituals in a Hindu wedding and won't be able to change her surname post-marriage - just because that would ask her to be something that she doesn't believe in. While the boyfriend agrees to each point that she is making but just don't want to create too much mental stress by opposing social norms, thus for mental peace, he is making a simple request - compromise on your beliefs and live peacefully.
8) confessions of a woman who decides to stop waxing and shaving
9) the internal monologs of a teen from a middle-class family when she decides to buy a fancy and trendy dress (you know, something more exposing than just a jeans and a t-shirt), and the sources she musters the courage
10) stories of the girls in rural India where they don't remember their birthdates or period dates or the implications of being pregnant within the first year of giving birth.
Not even one story seemed unfamiliar or work of fiction ( a piece of my life or my sister's life or my mother's life or my friends' lives). Each and every one of them is my favorite depiction, but the gave me instant goosebumps were the Mumbai Local and The Poet, Sharmila.
"As Sharmila spoke of dreams, food, family and the struggle of peace in Manipur I realized that she was a young woman first and an activist second. Her choices had indeed made her life different and yet the longing to experience, love and grow was the same.
And even now, years later, when empty Delhi roads are uneasy ways to walk by night, I think of Sharmila's expanding universe within that one locked room: as Manipur is hers, Delhi is mine!"
I must congratulate the illustrators who put in so much thought in writing about 'just ordinary things' that matter. We need many more illustrations on the issues of gender and sexuality. Some suggestions are:
1) a comic strip showing how a couple and their family reacts when they have a hermaphrodite child, 2) an illustration of women and men exploring their sexualities
3) stories of women who are raped by their husbands
4) stories of urban men who continuously struggle to maintain the delicate balance of chivalry and to prove the point of gender equality
5) stories about the women in rural India who spend most of their days on farms, kitchens, homes but still somehow loses all their endurance and strength when beaten up by their drunk husbands
6) lives of women who don't want kids, don't want to get married
7) the stream of consciousness of a woman trying to convince her modern liberal boyfriend that she won't be able to have the sexist rituals in a Hindu wedding and won't be able to change her surname post-marriage - just because that would ask her to be something that she doesn't believe in. While the boyfriend agrees to each point that she is making but just don't want to create too much mental stress by opposing social norms, thus for mental peace, he is making a simple request - compromise on your beliefs and live peacefully.
8) confessions of a woman who decides to stop waxing and shaving
9) the internal monologs of a teen from a middle-class family when she decides to buy a fancy and trendy dress (you know, something more exposing than just a jeans and a t-shirt), and the sources she musters the courage
10) stories of the girls in rural India where they don't remember their birthdates or period dates or the implications of being pregnant within the first year of giving birth.
Not even one story seemed unfamiliar or work of fiction ( a piece of my life or my sister's life or my mother's life or my friends' lives). Each and every one of them is my favorite depiction, but the gave me instant goosebumps were the Mumbai Local and The Poet, Sharmila.
"As Sharmila spoke of dreams, food, family and the struggle of peace in Manipur I realized that she was a young woman first and an activist second. Her choices had indeed made her life different and yet the longing to experience, love and grow was the same.
And even now, years later, when empty Delhi roads are uneasy ways to walk by night, I think of Sharmila's expanding universe within that one locked room: as Manipur is hers, Delhi is mine!"
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