{"id":41,"date":"2015-12-10T05:56:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/?p=41"},"modified":"2015-12-10T05:56:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T05:56:20","slug":"fahmida-riaz-response-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/2015\/12\/10\/fahmida-riaz-response-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahmida Riaz Response (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/files\/2015\/10\/Riaz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/files\/2015\/10\/Riaz-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"Riaz\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/files\/2015\/10\/Riaz-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/files\/2015\/10\/Riaz-948x1024.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I drew this picture in response to the theme of menstruation as impure in Fahmida Riaz&#8217;s poetry. I drew this out of makeup, partially to recognize the privilege that I have in choosing how I look everyday, and not facing serious backlash for it, and because we discussed in class how makeup can be a form of hijab, covering. In my picture, I have a woman, surrounded by blood and barbed wire, to represent how much menstruation can be isolating, as &#8220;a woman impure [is] imprisoned by her flowing blood&#8221;. In her poem, &#8220;Chadur and Diwari&#8221;, Riaz claims that the men calling women impure should have to cover themselves, and says that their white beards are covered in blood, keeping with the theme of impurity. In &#8220;Akleema&#8221;, she points out that the only differences between man and woman are physical, yet they have such vast ramifications and again lead to imprisonment in a woman&#8217;s body. It&#8217;s really easy to connect to Riaz&#8217;s poetry, as throughout the world women are shamed for things they have no control over or things that aren&#8217;t bad. Menstruation is an incredible and natural thing that allows for childbirth! Elsewhere, we are shamed for our clothing, sex lives, and many other &#8220;offenses&#8221;. Riaz&#8217;s poetry powerfully asks that we stop shaming women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drew this picture in response to the theme of menstruation as impure in Fahmida Riaz&#8217;s poetry. I drew this out of makeup, partially to recognize the privilege that I have in choosing how I look everyday, and not facing serious backlash for it, and because we discussed in class how makeup can be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/semart2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}