Vamika Sinha
I sometimes think the YouTube community is a bit like a high school. The ‘cool kids’ or the most popular/viewed YouTubers, check a certain number of boxes — you have the girls who post-aesthetic fashion/makeup videos, do monthly Q&A’s about their lives and often post hauls where they hold (usually) overpriced clothing and makeup to
Just like periods, dark skin and a career in the arts, mental health issues are just another one of those subjects that live in a perpetual cloud of stigma within Indian society. According to Art with Impact, at least 60 million Indians struggle daily with mental illness — but only one in 10 receive treatment. A
Warning: Sense8 spoilers ahead! It’s not every day you find a brown woman portrayed with actual nuance on mainstream television. This is part of a representation problem encountered by almost every ethnic/marginalised minority on-screen – a problem steeped in incompleteness, narrowness and stereotypes. But the recently-cancelled (alas!) Netflix show Sense8, a series that has been
This slam poem is dedicated to those girls that are still breaking into womanhood. I know the world can get you down – folks may pick you apart for your words or your colour or your body or your choice of career or simply the fact that you are female. This is a reminder to
