Patron Saint of Side-Eyes

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#beef, #bitches, #feminist, #feminsim, #illustration, #singapore, singaporeartist, sketchbook, typography, watercolor

I heard you are mouthing off about me. I know everything you’ve ever said about me. I see you lurking around my LinkedIn profile every other week. I know you tell people I am cantankerous because I am “always talking about feminism and racism”.

Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. If that makes you call me a bitch, let me introduce you to my Patron Saint of Side-Eyes and Not Giving a Single Fuck.

The Type of Woman

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#feminist, #illustration, #sarahkay #poetry, Indiasdaughter, watercolor

So much is being discussed everyday, everywhere I go — in real life or virtual — about what it means to be a woman. In India. In the Middle East. In the United States.

Despite the good intentions of the world, the public discourse is all about finding the right receptacle to provide female identity. To be of the female sex is not enough. To be of skin and bones and blood and guts is not enough. To be a fully formed human of sound mind is not enough. Are you a good mother? Are you the wife who is fighting to have a career?  Are you the sister who rebelled against your brother’s idea of honor? Are you India’s daughter who wasn’t protected enough?

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn’t be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken

Edit: The words in my illustration are from Sarah Kay’s poem, The Type.

The Last Unicorn

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#art, #drunkgirls, #feminist, #illustration, #love, #marriage, #men, #relationships, #unicorns, #writing

As self indulgent as this sounds, and I realise most people feel this way about the men they love, I have found the ever elusive, the very last, non-sexist, kind, generous and loving man on this planet.
And he is not embarrassed of me, my foot-in-mouth disease, my loud drunken self, or my wobbly bits.

I see you, baby. And you are magical.

ps: The illustration is mine but the frame was downloaded from DesignSponge