Kannammaa Writes

  My situation when I watched the highest grossing, blockbuster chart bursting Indian movie of the year = ANIMAL. 🐔🐔🐔 I finally watched Animal. I knowingly put my leg in a landmine. For who? For y'all. I was unable to take the movie seriously at all. At least that was how I prepared myself before watching it. They really used a lot of tomato chutney tho. "Self-reliant India." But chooses to live in the United States. This movie's genre isn't action. It's comedy. Animal is nothing but a privileged, spoiled, self-sabotaging, egoistic brat with a short fuse. His wife Gitanjali is another idiot who dances to his tune. She slaps and fights but has a rubber stick for a spine. However, the fact that this movie is the blockbuster of the year and Ranbir Kapoor getting a Filmfare award for Best Actor (Male) makes me a worrywart. What kind of people are we living with? They so intensely crave for violence, misogyny, gender roles, senseless murders, religious strife, e...

  I am a self-proclaimed feminist. I actively speak feminism on Instagram under the tutelage of my Facebook page, Karutthu Kannamamaa which is also managed by co-admins who are also my friends. I recently learned that my pictures are on lewd Tamil pages, captioned “Sexy Feminist Bitch waiting for customers.” LOL😂😂😂. This is the only way right-wing people can extend counter-narratives. It is also the easiest way to shut a woman up, leveraging age-old patriarchy that fixes a woman’s dignity and honor on her body. But I won't shut up.😈😈😈💅💅💅  In the initial days of Karutthu Kannammaa, Malaysian Indian men issued rape and murder threats against the admins, my ex-schoolmate, and me😄😄😄. My friend and I persisted and today, the page is famous in India and it is the Indian men’s turn to slut-shame us💤💤💤. I have received numerous slut-shaming texts in my Instagram DM.  If we want to break patriarchy effectively, we must first break the patriarchy within us. I...