Before Sufi and Soleil were born- before I knew I would be the mother of twin girls – I cherished this notion of promoting equality through gender neutral clothes. What are gender neutral clothes? Clothes that cater to both male and female and do not restrict on the basis of sex. This approach basically nullifies this idea that dresses are for girls and football jerseys for boys. The whole pink vs blue nursery thing.
After the girls came along, and after conscientiously amassing a wardrobe in shades of tasteful beige and camel for them, an interesting thing has happened. My girls – who are confident, assertive wells of curiosity- have been expressing (loudly) their preference for Princess dresses. And so I had to shift my feminist agenda. Why can’t Sufi and Soleil be fierce and independent minded AND enjoy frilly, extravagant design? Why not indeed. One need not cancel out the other.
Perhaps in another few months they will express a fascination for high tops and drop crotch joggers. Who knows. But yet again, these two have challenged me and demanded a re ordering of my universe. It’s just clothes, after all.
So for now we are enjoying our tryst with tulle and lace and sparkle and the cutest silhouettes like this one by @fairiesnmermaids 💝
I’m once again humbled by 2, two and half year olds. Nothing like kids to slay your everyday beliefs.
#feministmomwoes
Posted @withregram • @ashishnsoniman Inverted lapelled women’s dinner jacket worn by the gorgeous @lisaraniray
Finally landed on the perfect WFH (which of course stands for ‘write from home’) uniform. These buttery Cardi- Palazzos by @sidiathebrand come in the sweetest colours and are comfy yet chic. (And oh so good at disguising extra quarantine pounds) Female founded in TO with love and an authentic brand story these sets and delicious kaftans sell out as fast as they are stocked. Comfort, ease and buying local (while we’re still in Canada) – check!
So I bought one set in Acton, then went back and ordered all colours in my size. Planning on packing them when we fly back to Asia.
Thanks Erin!
@sidiathebrand #justamountainfraulein
No
I wake in the mornings
to find the city at my window,
a giant mouth
that’s forgotten how to close.
The telephone rings,
each ring a reminder
that I have been detected,
that I am She
whose e-mails pile up unanswered,
whose checklists grow
tangled,
matted,
unchecked.
She who is never on the right platform.
She who turns away
from importunate hands at car windows.
She who smiles when she doesn’t mean it.
She who didn’t vote at three elections.
But what no one guesses
is that it is She who after sundown
stalks the dark alleys,
hungry to annihilate anyone
who seeks to tame her
with clammy malarial tentacles
of guilt.
And on full-moon nights
She even dares
to look the world
square in the face
and say
no.
– Arundhati Subramaniam
Surpassing solaces of monochromatic spas.
United in our mission to portray women who transcend their environments and conditioning to grasp firmly at CHOICE.
@shamimsarif @hanankattan @beneaththesheetz
Posted @withregram • @lesbiancinema The World Unseen (2007) dir. Shamim Sarif
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In 1950s Cape Town, progressive and free Amina (Sheetal Sheth) co-owns a cafe with a black man named Jacob. One day, a beautiful housewife named Miriam (Lisa Ray) visits the cafe, and Amina is instantly smitten. Miriam runs a store outside of town with her husband, Omar (Parvin Dabas), and feels increasingly stifled in her conventional life. She cannot help but give in to her desire when Amina comes calling.
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Stream on: Amazon Prime or Vudu. 📺
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#theworldunseen #lesbiancinema #theworldunseenlesbiancinema #theworldunseenmovie #icantthinkstraight #icantthinkstraightmovie #queercinema #womansday #happywomensday #lesbianfilm #wlw #loveislove
Posted @withregram • @lesbiancinema The World Unseen (2007) dir. Shamim Sarif
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In 1950s Cape Town, progressive and free Amina (Sheetal Sheth) co-owns a cafe with a black man named Jacob. One day, a beautiful housewife named Miriam (Lisa Ray) visits the cafe, and Amina is instantly smitten. Miriam runs a store outside of town with her husband, Omar (Parvin Dabas), and feels increasingly stifled in her conventional life. She cannot help but give in to her desire when Amina comes calling.
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Stream on: Amazon Prime or Vudu. 📺
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#theworldunseen #lesbiancinema #theworldunseenlesbiancinema #theworldunseenmovie #icantthinkstraight #icantthinkstraightmovie #queercinema #womansday #happywomensday #lesbianfilm #wlw #loveislove
After weeks of very little sun, it feels weird to expose my toes to the sky. Well, I’m a tropical girl and not used to layering up after years in Asia.
Also slipped into these decadent customised slippers by @domanishoes that conjure up luxury hotels and maybe a bit of Delhi?
Either way, loving the entire heels to the sun, praise be, spring and sunnier (better) days are on the way vibe
This Saturday we wandered the Columbia Basin.
What did I say in a previous post?
No. More. Sweats.
Unless it’s @shadyladyeyewear butter fleece on a day when spring comes softly through the door.
Posted @withregram • @atmos Have you ever seen a Spanish dancer swim? 💙
Hexabranchus sanguineus is a nudibranch—a very large and colorful sea slug—that feeds on marine sponges and toxic jellyfish, assimilating their poisons for their own chemical defence. Their bright coloration serves as a warning to potential predators that they don’t taste good and can make predators sick.
These propelling moves are thought to be unique to the Spanish dancer as the only Nudibranch that can swim as well as crawl along the sea floor.
Video by @fathomlesslife
The ULTRA ‘Optimist Collection’ has landed here in Nelson. My @itsmspreetatoyou the ultimate optimist (because, Aries) and @thelabellife come together with @starbucksindia with an Ode to Joy. Sip your coffee/chai and start your day with what’s essential : liquid J. O. Y.
(And fab design)
Oh you crazy optimistic label-lifers. Here’s to happiness that’s hot, steamy and caffeinated. Here’s to YOU.
Thanks @piu_snooze for these whimsical pjs. Helps at taking things a bit less seriously, particularly when reading Jung.
Posted @withregram • @su.n.doku Me being filmy for anything Indian and desi led me to this wonderfully engaging book by the loveliest Lisa Ray. Having watched her in Deepa Mehta’s trilogy ‘Water’, I became intrigued by this ‘introvert’ who somehow had a brush with Bollywood and modelling when she was only 16, a far cry from her original plan of wanting to become a writer / journalist. The most delightful thing about Lisa Ray’s book is her intimate chronicle of her life even detailing her parents love story in the most interesting way. Sometimes when writers divulge too much information, they became tedious and ‘showy’ to the reader. Somehow, the intricate details penned by Lisa only made her autobiography more worth hanging onto. This autobiography is not only on her cancer journey as many would have thought but oh so much more. I particularly love her description of her Polish mom’s journey marrying into an Indian family and hers & mom’s “platonic” relationship 🥺 Reading the book, I felt I travelled with her through her life journey, my emotions running on a rollercoaster. My admiration for her is not just skin-deep now as it is normal for people to be taken by her beauty but having the chance to delve into her innermost thoughts and experiences, I felt Lisa is a natural writer unabashed in sharing her personal thoughts, it is quite mindblowing and a treat to my senses, my respect for her just went through the ceiling 🤩😍 @lisaraniray #lisaray #closetothebone #intimate #personaljourney #personalthoughts #writer #delightful #beauty #beautiful #inside #outside #wow #intriguing
Posted @withregram • @arraarts Speaker Spotlight on Indo-Canadian Celebrity Lisa Ray (@lisaraniray )
JOIN US for an #exclusive #celebration of #internationalwomensday with #Celebrity Lisa Ray!
Lisa Ray is an #Actor, #Author and #Activist.
Lisa Ray is a celebrated Indo-Canadian actor with outstanding performances in “Kasoor”, “Hollywood Bollywood”, Oscar nominated “Water” and many others.
She has acted in many TV shows and Web Series including the latest “Four Shots, Please”, a mega success in India.
Lisa Ray’s quest as an author is apparent from her debut book “Close to the Bone” which is a memoir of a brave and inspiring story of a life lived on her terms. Close to the Bone is a Bestseller in India.
Lisa Ray is an activist, a cancer survivor with a spiritual pursuit and is an extraordinary trail blazer for young girls and women.
Watch the event online livestream March 8, 2021
Facebook 3pm-4pm
https://www.facebook.com/ARRA-Arts-109063807587823/Live
ATN Life 6pm-7pm
Y Media TV 7pm-8pm
Presented By: ARRA Arts & Consulate General of India, Toronto
@unwomen @vservecanada @sis_from_the_six @lisaraniray
#arraarts #Vserve #Canada #Brampton #Mississauga #London #Ontario #Toronto #Event #speakers #March #webinar #internationalwomensday #inspirationalwomen #womenempowerment #womensday #womensupportingwomen #Seeher #womensupportingwomen #unwomensday #hotels #closetothebone #engagement #community
Let me start by saying that without the alchemy of magic and myth, I feel myself caving in like a tulip in a dessert storm. This is the first winter I’ve spent in North America in years and I frequently woke in the blackness of morning, petals at my feet. Now that spring is here and our family is in the whirl of making plans to return to Asia, I’m crawling out of this dark, wintry place in my head.
To coincide @sharanya_manivannan wondrous book arrived, which I’ve been immersed in as much as Sufi. Mermaids and stories of waters of the world weave across the pages, as Amma takes Nilavoli on a moonlit boat ride in a lagoon humming with its own mysterious music.
Thank you @sharanya_manivannan and congratulations on your first illustrated picture book, injecting folklore and fish tails with a human heart, back into our days.
@westland_books
Posted @withregram • @shreshisinghart SPRING IS IN THE AIR | MOSAM-E-BAHAAR
Longing… longing was the prompt for this art. Longing for spring, longing for someplace sunny to dry my clothes in the sun in the balcony. During the quarantine when things slowed down, every single day I longed to wash my clothes and dry them in the balcony so much so that I started looking at all the high rise buildings I’m surrounded with in NYC and imagining what it would be like to see someone drying their sari in the balcony – uff there’s so much adda (grace) in the act of putting clothes to dry after a bath, wet hair dripping! I couldn’t stop thinking about the sight of this balcony I used to look at all afternoon during the part of quarantine I spent in india and then one evening when I was walking through Manhattan, I looked up saw this shadow dancing on a building, it all came together and became a lucid dream and then it took the form of this art. Scroll to see some of the visuals I’m talking about!
I’m forever inspired by afternoons and the sights I relate to them from my childhood in Bihar watching women of my house going about their day and the moon that sometimes makes a sudden early appearance!
P.S. I highly recommend zooming in into the artwork so I know I don’t have a crooked neck for nothing! Pardon this vague writing, words fail me and I’m still dreaming.
Limited Edition Prints to be available in my shop later today.
#Spring #sari
Posted @withregram • @life_coach_bindiya_murgai Our world needs to be challenged in order to stay alert, for change to happen. Nothing good ever came out without something being challenged. Authority. Law. Beliefs. Rituals. Sacrifices. Injustices. Prejudices. Inequality.
So let’s all choose to challenge.
How will you help forge a gender-equal world?
Have you ever celebrated women and their achievements?
Have you ever spoken or acted against gender bias?
What have you done, in your own big or small way, to promote equality?
CHOOSE TO CHALLENGE
I challenge gender stereotypes and biases.
Our world needs to be challenged in order to stay alert, for change to happen. Nothing good ever came out without something being challenged. Authority. Law. Beliefs. Rituals. Sacrifices. Injustices. Prejudices. Inequality.
So let’s all choose to challenge.
How will you help forge a gender-equal world?
Have you ever celebrated women and their achievements?
Have you ever spoken or acted against gender bias?
What have you done, in your own big or small way, to promote equality?
CHOOSE TO CHALLENGE
I challenge gender stereotypes and biases.
Posted @withregram • @life_coach_bindiya_murgai Our world needs to be challenged in order to stay alert, for change to happen. Nothing good ever came out without something being challenged. Authority. Law. Beliefs. Rituals. Sacrifices. Injustices. Prejudices. Inequality.
So let’s all choose to challenge.
How will you help forge a gender-equal world?
Have you ever celebrated women and their achievements?
Have you ever spoken or acted against gender bias?
What have you done, in your own big or small way, to promote equality?
CHOOSE TO CHALLENGE
I challenge gender stereotypes and biases.
Our world needs to be challenged in order to stay alert, for change to happen. Nothing good ever came out without something being challenged. Authority. Law. Beliefs. Rituals. Sacrifices. Injustices. Prejudices. Inequality.
So let’s all choose to challenge.
How will you help forge a gender-equal world?
Have you ever celebrated women and their achievements?
Have you ever spoken or acted against gender bias?
What have you done, in your own big or small way, to promote equality?
CHOOSE TO CHALLENGE
I challenge gender stereotypes and biases.
Posted @withregram • @myhealthmusings Last year after my surgery doctors began giving me meds which I didn’t really know about. Getting a dose of cyclophosphamide wasn’t a big deal and nor was the IV. It was routine I was told. When I read up medical journals online this was the contemporary treatment for SLE. At that time I really wanted to be able to talk about falling sick and about treatment in general.
To be able to talk about it would give me control of the narrative even if everything was out of my control. I hoped I would be able to talk about my experience so someone out there felt like they had a voice too.
Fast forward to when I heard @lisaraniray s book #closetothebone on @audible
It was moving,insightful and just very entertaining. A general fun book about illness and recovery that I wish I had written. Her story is truly engaging and her struggles were truly her own. But I could relate. I could feel her struggles,her growth. Her infectious energy cake through in her writing which might I add was just so well put together.
Fast forward to now. The physical copy of her book just arrived in the mail and I’m even more excited to read it this time around. And I hope that someday I could write as eloquently as her. Even if it was a story I read to myself when things got tough ,I would be happy to go down memory lane and draw the insights Lisa has drawn so effortlessly through her journey! Please go find a copy. Additionally get the audio book. As someone who’s lived in Delhi,travelled quite a bit to Bombay and seen glimpses of Calcutta from memory everything she wrote about felt like home.
#systematiclupuserythematosis #sle #lupus #autoimmune #closetothebone #lisaray
Orange boat.
@nelsonkootenaylake
❤️
Posted @withregram • @parveenhq Happy World Book Day 📚
If I walk into someone’s home and it doesn’t have books slowly but surely it begins to unsettle me… 🙈
that’s my quirk of the day!
#books #booklover #bookstagram #worldbookday
Posted @withregram • @arraarts SPECIAL INVITE to the #exclusive #celebration of #internationalwomensday from #speaker #celebrity Lisa Ray!
Lisa Ray is an #Actor, #Author and #Activist. ( @lisaraniray )
Lisa Ray is a celebrated Indo-Canadian actor with outstanding performances in “Kasoor”, “Hollywood Bollywood”, Oscar nominated “Water” and many others.
She has acted in many TV shows and Web Series including the latest “Four Shots, Please”, a mega success in India.
Lisa Ray’s quest as an author is apparent from her debut book “Close to the Bone” which is a memoir of a brave and inspiring story of a life lived on her terms. Close to the Bone is a Bestseller in India.
Lisa Ray is an activist, a cancer survivor with a spiritual pursuit and is an extraordinary trail blazer for young girls and women.
Watch the event livestreamed on March 8, 2021
Facebook 3pm-4pm
https://www.facebook.com/ARRA-Arts-109063807587823/Live
TV Broadcast Timing Schedule
ATN Punjabi Plus 3pm-4pm
Y MEDIA TV 6pm-7pm
BELL FIBE 828 6pm-7pm
TELUX 2418 6pm-7pm
ROGERS 857 6pm-7pm
IGNITE TV 707 6pm-7pm
ATN Life 6:30pm-7:30pm
ATN CBN: 8pm-9pm
#arraarts #Vserve #Canada #Brampton #Mississauga #London #Ontario #Toronto #Event #speakers #March #webinar #internationalwomensday #inspirationalwomen #womenempowerment #womensday #womensupportingwomen
Posted @withregram • @life_coach_bindiya_murgai Our world needs to be challenged in order to stay alert, for change to happen. Nothing good ever came out without something being challenged. Authority. Law. Beliefs. Rituals. Sacrifices. Injustices. Prejudices. Inequality.
So let’s all choose to challenge.
How will you help forge a gender-equal world?
Have you ever celebrated women and their achievements?
Have you ever spoken or acted against gender bias?
What have you done, in your own big or small way, to promote equality?
CHOOSE TO CHALLENGE
I challenge gender stereotypes and biases.
Our world needs to be challenged in order to stay alert, for change to happen. Nothing good ever came out without something being challenged. Authority. Law. Beliefs. Rituals. Sacrifices. Injustices. Prejudices. Inequality.
So let’s all choose to challenge.
How will you help forge a gender-equal world?
Have you ever celebrated women and their achievements?
Have you ever spoken or acted against gender bias?
What have you done, in your own big or small way, to promote equality?
CHOOSE TO CHALLENGE
I challenge gender stereotypes and biases.
