peggxcarter:Hello my name is Sheila and I’m both desi as hell and mad as hell. Coachella is coming u
peggxcarter:Hello my name is Sheila and I’m both desi as hell and mad as hell. Coachella is coming up, and with it an enormous rise in the appropriation of the bindi as a fashion piece. There’s an enormous history and heritage that’s being stolen when that happens. When Indian women wear bindis, we’re stared at, mocked, called slurs, until we stop wearing them. And then white girls take them, wear them, ignore the history, ignore the culture, and call them “festival looks.” Bindis are typically worn in a particular place (see: chakras), for particular reasons (see: kumkum vs tilak), to denote particular sects of Hinduism (Vishnu worshippers and Shiva worshippers).So here I am reclaiming the bindi. Because this is who I am and it’s not yours to take frivolously. -- source link