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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

[girlrants]

👁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

[girlrants]

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