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EMPOWERMENT

173 pieces

All Features Making Waves
FEATURES, EMPOWERMENT
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.…
DELALI AMEGAH
FEATURES, EMPOWERMENT
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)…
AISHWARYA VISWAMITRA
FEATURES, EMPOWERMENT
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…
AISHWARYA VISWAMITRA
EMPOWERMENT, LIFE
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…
CHRISTOPHER SORIANO
FEATURES, EMPOWERMENT
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.…
AISHWARYA VISWAMITRA
EMPOWERMENT
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…
AISHWARYA VISWAMITRA
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
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…
AISHWARYA VISWAMITRA
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
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…
AMY NGUYEN
EMPOWERMENT
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…
JE'NAE SINGH
EMPOWERMENT
What is it like to stay clear with Clearica?
Archana and Anuj Rathi come from a family that supplies colours, such as paints and inks, to businesses in India, but they…
AISHWARYA VISWAMITRA
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Michelle Tea On Knocking Herself Up And The Fertility Industrial Complex
Initiating with the radical transparency that she will thus continue, it is 2011 when Tea’s reproductive odyssey commences. A former sex worker,…
MAEDBH PIERCE
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
“A Poem to Latin America…”: An Interview with Fashion Designer Hyla Golden Del Castillo
Featured Image: Justynn Roque and Alec Boyle Five years ago, a determined young woman from Colombia moved to Canada with large aspirations…
SWETHA SUTHARSAN

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