Analyzing Gender Stereotypes and Inspiring Change
The Jeep Wrangler rattles as it drives up the gravelly, winding, mountain roads of Mount Baldy. Cold air from the open window turns the tips of our noses red and plays with our hair as sunlight peeks through the large pine trees surrounding the car on both sides. Each sharp turn brings us closer to…
In the delicate balance of a Jenga tower, each block that contributes to the stability of the tower holds its own story, just like how each of us holds onto the memories that shape who we are. This project began as a game between my friends and I, but as the camera filmed and we…
I must be a fool. To hold myself down, To float but still drown, To eat all my dreams away. I must be a fool. To love everybody except myself, To never admit that I need help, To make a perfect path but still be led astray, I must be a fool. To blame everything…
Hanging on a thread, Needles pierce my skin. As they move across my head, They push and pull me, once again. I am forced back together to be torn apart, once again. I am incomplete, inauspicious, and incompetent, once again. –Saira Bhagat
You promised you wouldn’t leave, You said you’d always be there, A constant in my shifting world. But I guess you moved on, Your faded into the night, You broke your promise, Leaving me in the silence we used to share. Why did you leave, where did you go? Did you lose interest in my…
Heavy burdens on weary shoulders, Dreams crushed beneath hollow walls. Disappointment leaks into every pore, of Abandoned souls yearning for something In the world while the lights dim more, The oppressed are trapped in desolate shades. –Saira Bhagat
Shadows of a broken land, voices stifled, breaths subdued. Hope fades like the sun over the horizon, and silence, heavy, fills the air. Hands, once unbound, now tremble, held down by unseen chains. Eyes that once saw the morning now only see the dark. Dreams collapse under the weight of silence. A single step feels…
Skin engraved with scars, tucked beneath the surface, where they eat at her from the inside, whispering truths no one wants to hear. Somewhere within the vibrancy of her dreams, She had begun to crumble. Somewhere within a sea of expectations, She had drowned. And there she lay. She struggled for breath, as she was…
“Do you want to see him one last time?” On the morning of January 27th, 2022, I was woken up by the news that my grandfather was gone. He passed away in the morning with my dad by his side, in as much peace as he could be, given his heart condition. I walked down…
NO TRESPASSINGPrivate PropertyViolators will be prosecuted to the full extent of… My legs are starting to fall asleep as I’m folded into the small space between the boxes of kitchen appliances in the dark warehouse we are trespassing in. I’m a known claustrophobe and yet every time I play hide & seek, I hide in some…
In 2017, a ten-year-old brown girl sat on her bed scrolling through her Instagram feed, television on in the background, fashion magazines stacked on the floor, surrounded by images whose hair was not like hers, whose noses were not hers, whose skin was not like hers, whose bodies were not like hers. This is what…
Born to be a LeadHER 