Each day across the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, we will highlight a 2018 activism effort undertaken to stop street harassment or a personal story about stopping harassers!
Day 11: Creating Feminist Graphics
Shehzil Malik began producing feminist graphics in response to gender inequality, including street harassment, that she saw and experienced in her country of Pakistan.
“Her vibrant, subversive images, which include hijabi bikers, tattooed women and a brown-skinned Wonder Woman, were a defiant kind of therapy….Her first series, which was about “the anxiety of stepping outside,” was unflinching in its critique of the status quo. One of the comic-style illustrations, which drips in satire, depicts the preparation required for women to become “socially acceptable” — necklines, hemlines, shawls, hair, makeup, embellishments. Another graphic shows a collection of floating eyeballs looming over a lone woman.
