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👁GHOORTI NAZAR👁 Part 2 Come And see what we have done To your cages Broken them Destroyed them We are now flying in search Of a new sky And you have nothing better To do than look. Look, Deep into our eyes You will see Rainbow colours Of love and freedom. Listen, To the sounds Of our feet That walk on the chest of the Streets At night, With anklets on The feet are draped in Their hard work, The exhilaration of that Night. Now understand, That we Will not be manipulated Deceived By the idea of shame dipped in Capitalism The vain parameters of Character and honour. Now, The cheeks are red (Red of revolution) Lips carry questions My feet carry chaos Now, With earthen lamps lit on the Shoulders of storm We are growing love in the Gardens of oppression We are carrying the world on Our shoulders You and, We move on And still, You cannot stop looking at us You just cannot. Words by the beautiful @boltiaurat ♥️✨ View our collab online on @kadakcollective’s website featuring the Bystander Anthology For Web to get the true visual and sound experience. Link: https://bystanderforweb.kadakcollective.com #bystander #bystanderanthology #kadakcollective #kadakanthology #southasia #pakistan #india #artistsoninstagram #illustratorsoninstagram #illustration #digitalillustration #digitalart #collab #poem #poetry #ghoortinazar #gaze #malegaze #femalegaze #staringgaze https://www.instagram.com/p/CGkFS3MnBVA/?igshid=1a7r2lscc1y7a

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Meet the Contributors!

The Bystander anthology would not be possible without the unbelievable talent of our contributors: comic-makers, illustrators, designers, filmmakers, writers, poets, researchers, several of whom are also practitioners and academics in areas as varied as disability studies, semiotics, architecture, education, gender, political geography, projection design, illustration, design, and so much more!

Our line up of contributors are:

Aziza Ahmad / Sabika Abbas Naqvi / Upasana Agarwal / Aravani Art Project / Samya Arif / Ayirani Balachanthiran / Mrigaja Bajracharya  / Gopika Bashi / Priya Dali / Shilpa Das / Soumya Dhulekar / Pavithra Dikshit / Zara Fayaz / Kaveri Gopalakrishnan / Wang Rana Gurung (Thimphu Comics) / Jasjyot Singh Hans / Nabigal-Nayagam Haider Ali / Isuri MH / Swati Janu / Kripa Joshi / Humayra Kabir / Sense Kaleidoscopes / Divya Kandukuri / Sabba Khan / Saffa Khan / Reem Khurshid / Akhila Krishnan / Shreyas R Krishnan / Lungshai Leisan / Mira Malhotra / Shehzil Malik / Ayangbe Mannen / Sab Meynert / Nandini Moitra / Prachi Mokashi / Sana Nasir / Aleesha Nandhra / Aarthi Parthasarathy / Thilini Perera / Ibrahim Rayintakath / Sumedha Sah / Shrujana Shridhar / Janine Shroff / Sindu Sivayogam / Kruttika Susarla / Supriya Tirkey / Kritika Trehan / Saheb Ram Tudu / Sinthujan Varatharajah / Valentino Vecchietti / Xinaneo

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👁GHOORTI NAZAR👁 Part 1 You have Locked in cages The dreams in our eyes Our heartbeats The hopes that we embodied Our moving feet You have Put behind curtains Our eyelashes holding on to Fantasies Our sense of vision That could see A new dawn And articulate hopes Or weave a tapestry of novel aspirations Novel philosophies You manipulated us Into hiding our bra straps Worrying about covering our breast You pushed us into a whirlpool of Shame and honour Fear, at every step, fear In every work, fear. You’ve tied clocks to our feet And nights slipped out from between Our fingers Like grains of sand You’ve made it difficult To take a bus Catch a drain Walk the road Talk Speak Assert Sing Question Dance Listen Cry Breathe You just cannot take your eyes off me You just cannot None of your tricks will work on me now You just cannot take your eyes off me You just cannot. Words by the beautiful @boltiaurat ♥️✨ View our collab online on @kadakcollective’s website featuring the Bystander Anthology For Web to get the true visual and sound experience. Link: https://bystanderforweb.kadakcollective.com #bystander #bystanderanthology #kadakcollective #kadakanthology #southasia #pakistan #india #artistsoninstagram #illustratorsoninstagram #illustration #digitalillustration #digitalart #collab #poem #poetry #ghoortinazar #gaze #malegaze #femalegaze #staringgaze https://www.instagram.com/p/CGkEni4Hy-v/?igshid=10gyviv4hjin

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Excited and honored to be a part of the Bystander Anthology by @kadakcollective representing a diverse range of incredible artists and writers from all over South Asia! Bystander for the Web is now LIVE for public viewing!!! . For the Bystander Anthology I have collaborated with the beautiful and enigmatic poet and activist from India, @boltiaurat on our piece titled GHOORTI NAZAR, which you all can now view online!!! Big love and thanks to our editor @sayerhs for her superb direction! I’ll be sharing works from our collaboration in the coming days but to get the true visual and sound experience visit the @kadakcollective website: Link in bio (https://bystanderforweb.kadakcollective.com) . . View the @kadakcollective’s Bystander Anthology for The Web, and scroll through all the 8 original works created specially for the web, from these incredible contributors: @mokashimokashi @priyadali @thekawaloberoi @kritikatrehan @ibrahirn @sabikabbasnaqvi @samyaarif @valentino_vecchieti @kruttika @sense_kaleidoscopes . . #bystander #bystanderanthology #kadakcollective #kadakanthology #anthology #southasia #southasian #kadak #artistsoninstagram #illustratorsoninstagram #illustration #digitalillustration #animation #animation2d #gif #poem #poetry #india #pakistan #ghoortinazar #gaze #staringgaze https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_yXMCJHZ_/?igshid=5g5zrt3jgy47

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SUPER EXCITED 💥 to be a part of this bold and brilliant, upcoming anthology led by India's @kadakcollective on the theme of BYSTANDER. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Featuring 51 South Asian creatives from 13 countries including some of my favourites from Pakistan like @reemkhurshid @koi_nahi @shehzilm and @wowhotawhat !! The Bystander anthology is a collection of graphic narratives about geography and gender, identity and self, boundary and exclusion through the lens of the experience of the ‘other’– the bystander. . This first of its kind project needs your help in funding it, through its newly launched @kickstarter campaign, GET ON IT NOW and nab yourself some really awesome rewards while you're at it, including the Bystander anthology book itself!!! Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bystander/the-bystander-anthology/description . The beautiful book cover is designed by the amazing @mirafmalhotra ❤️ . #kadakanthology #bystander #bystanderanthology #kadakcollective #kadak #anthology #southasia https://www.instagram.com/p/BxUtJGZHwFz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p6rq3hahry6t

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Meet the Bystander Editorial Team!

Aarthi Parthasarathy is a writer, researcher and filmmaker based in Bangalore. She co-founded Falana Films, a creative studio for art and design practitioners. She created the webcomic series Royal Existentials and has also written a number of short graphic stories, working with visual collaborators. Aarthi likes working with themes related to gender, politics and existential angst, and is also engaged in an ongoing research project on the history of comics in India, with historian Arun Prasad.

Akhila Krishnan is a multi disciplinary designer and director working across fine art, graphic narrative, moving image, projection design for live experience/VR and collaborative practice. Her interest and background in documentary film-making tempers her approach to her comic and illustration work, which often takes inspiration from real events; incorporating processes of interviewing, journaling and reportage. She has recently been shortlisted for the Laydeez Do Comics Prize (2018, UK). Akhila currently lives and works in London, UK.

Gopika Bashi works as the Asia campaigner for Oxfam International’s worldwide #sayenough campaign to end violence against women and girls. She has trained and worked with women from diverse backgrounds on issues related to access to justice, sexual and gender-based violence, gender and sexuality. She is an advisor for the FRIDA Fund – a global fund run by young feminists to support young feminist organising, and also serves on the Board of a labour and human rights organisation. Gopika is based in Bangalore, India.

Mira Malhotra is a visual artist and illustrator. She has a keen interest in DIY cultures, folk arts, social issues and music. An occasional author, Mira has contributed to design publications such as Creating Change by Kyoorius and British Council and The Trellis, NID. Her work has been featured across the globe. Mira is the founder and principal designer of Studio Kohl in Mumbai, India.

Sabika Abbas Naqvi is a performance poet, gender rights activist, translator, storyteller, and an alternative educator. She is the founder of Sar-e-Rahguzar: Poetry on the Streets. Her poetry revolves around issues of reclamation, subversion, sexuality, gender, and minority rights. She is a senior subject matter expert on Social and Emotional Learning. Sabika hails from Lucknow, and lives in Pune, India.

Shreyas R Krishnan is an illustrator-designer and educator from Chennai. Her work is rooted in research and takes on the forms of non-fiction comics, documentary drawings, and editorial illustration. Through drawing and writing, she tries to understand the ways in which visual culture and gender intersect. Shreyas teaches illustration at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Missouri, USA.

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The theme for our upcoming anthology emerged from many discussions about what would be most relevant to the here and now.

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BIG NEWS! 

This year Kadak Collective is working on an exciting new project that we cannot wait to share with you! 

‘Bystander’ is a proposed anthology led by the Kadak Collective, a collection of graphic narratives about geography and gender, identity and self, boundary and exclusion through the lens of the experience of the ‘other’– the bystander. Sign up to our mailing list for updates! https://tinyletter.com/KadakAnthology