in the making
Gender discrimination is assumed to take place in the world outside rather than inside of us. This prevents us from realizing that we perform gender each day of our lives and the negotiations of it must also start through us. I believe an individual self is a space where patriarchy materializes, acting as an instrument through which it operates. While the same self holds an opportunity to oppose, to redefine and to re-construct realities.
Through an art-based autoethnography that uses principles of critical self-reflection and praxis, I deconstruct my gendered social conditioning and try to challenge and overcome that very conditioning. This gets articulated through a memoir, two self-portrait series and a set of critical design artefacts.
