“Get familiar with Pia Alize Hazarika and Malathi Jogi. As profiled by FeminisminIndia.com, the Delhi-based illustrator and Bombay-based design student/writer were sick of hearing people try to explain to them why they were doing feminism wrong, so they responded in the way they knew best – with their creativity.
The duo created a comic series called Custom Cuts, which you can view in full on Tumblr, where they draw out typical scenarios and conversations where feminism gets misconstrued in society today. Whether it is discussing rape culture and the way society bends itself to protect perpetrators of assault because they are either A) the United States President, or B) a major sports star, the way the advertising industry has adopted a version of feminism that is more about capitalism than destroying systems of injustice, or simply explaining the important definition of intersectionality which is at the core of today’s movement (Kellyanne, take note!) these comics are brilliant.
“With ‘Custom Cuts’ we want to try to understand and explain the in-between spaces that emerge from widely differing contexts, and the custom-made feminism that lies between the labels of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ feminism. While we’re at it, we’d also like to answer some of the questions we often get, including – ‘why are you so angry?’, ‘So, you’re a feminazi?’, ‘Is it feminist to be ‘girly’?’ and ‘how can a feminist like pink?‘” explain Pia and Malathi.”
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