PROJECTS
Book
“The Modern Magic Spell: Unleashing the magic of gender bias-defying tales”
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Having witnessed the widespread gender bias, I’ve become really passionate about women empowerment. I founded an organization (www.empowerwoment.org) in 2022, where I have been using narrative, poems, and podcasts to fight gender bias. In the summer of 2023, I conducted an in-person 8 session creative writing course for 30 girls from impoverished backgrounds who are studying in a government funded school in India. The aim was to empower these girls by providing a creative outlet for their imagination. The course started with a brief on plot creation and culminated in the learners writing original stories with the theme of women empowerment. Of these, 5 moving stories were shortlisted for editing and eventual publication. The girls demonstrated impressive courage sharing their plans for higher education and career ambitions. I witnessed first-hand the power education holds as a tool for empowerment.
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Creative Writing Workshops
I conducted an in-person 8 session creative writing course for 30 girls from impoverished backgrounds who are studying in a government funded school in India. The aim was to empower these girls by providing a creative outlet for their imagination. The course started with a brief on plot creation and culminated in the learners writing original stories with the theme of women empowerment.
Session on empowerment
A fairytale storytelling workshop was held for more than 30 schoolgirls in a govt. school in India. It was gratifying to see the impact; the students recognized the stereotypes in the original fairy tale, using my rewritten story to model feminist principles.