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A review by ljrinaldi
Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back! by
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".