Category: EMPOWERMENT
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Visual Storytelling as a Liberation Practice: A Look Back on Barbara Evina’s First Solo Exhibition, “How I Have Been Spending My Twenties”
“Choosing keeping”, 50x50cm oil on Canvas, 2022. Back in September 2022, I had the privilege of attending Barbara Evina’s first solo exhibition. In an intimate exploration of self and medium, Barbara Evina delves into the profound connections between her life experiences and her artistry, vividly portraying personal growth and cultural…
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Baring It All with The Bare Bar: Radhika’s Story
When you think of social media strategy gone right, you think of The Bare Bar. But they’re more than just their (fantastic) content and customer testimonials — after all, the praise has to come from somewhere. Their tagline, ‘Simple. Clean. Sustainable’ tells you exactly what to expect and this interview…
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Skin Serenade: How The Skög Nurtures Your Glow
This series aims to amplify the stories of the people behind small businesses that we know and love, so we’ve had many career journeys and paths featured here. But fashion business turned skincare? The Skög’s founder Gautami Agarwal has (cat)walked a different path from the ones we’ve featured before. Gautami’s…
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He who Considered Himself a Failure and not a Playwright: On Seeing my Words on Stage
On August 26th, 2023, I attended a showcase hosted by El Teatro Campesino called Palabra Vol. Take Action. They had accepted a one-act play I wrote and scheduled to perform it that weekend. I attended the show twice, once with my friends, and the other with my family the next…
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How Liśen listens to consumers needs
Anyone can start a skincare business but it takes a certain someone special to carve out a niche in a saturated market. You can call it talent and skill, but when it comes to merging skincare chemistry with consumer needs, nothing replaces experience. With a family rooted in the beauty…
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Basking in the glow of The Silk Glow
We’ve had many inspirational small business stories in our series so far, and Parul Ganatra’s journey is no different. Her story should come with a warning label on it: Will make you want to drop everything and get creating now! In 2015, Parul was a mum to two kids while…
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asa Beauty, a pioneer of India’s sustainable beauty movement
On the eve of asa Beauty’s re-launch, I sat down with Sukriti Jindal Khaitan, one of the co-founders of asa Beauty (the other being Asha Khaitan) to understand why. Having worked in Brand myself, I knew two things. One, a re-launch could make or break customer trust and two, it’s…
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Alchemy of Solitude director Viktoria I.V. King on the plurality of justice
“Do you want to ask questions or do you want to live?” International-award-winning film director, screenwriter, and producer Viktoria I.V. King poses this question throughout her newest upcoming film, Alchemy of Solitude, which she describes as an “autopsy of an activist”. Set in an alternate reality, where activists-turned-assassins are trying…
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You’re Doing Brown Skin All Wrong
Featured Illustration: Dissirama Laba As brown girls, we have to come to the basic understanding (and agreement) that our skin care needs are on a completely different playing field than caucasian skin. Everything about it is different; skin conditions, issues, concerns, and even genetic makeup. Before this one beautiful invention…