Waking in a nightmare Featuring Ronita Mookerjee

Just another day of waking in a nightmare. Floundering in its placenta. Horrors everywhere. In the bus seat behind you. In the principal’s office. In your living room. In the comments section. Crossing the street and coming towards you. In the drivers seat asking for the OTP. In the government. In the church. In the caliphate. In my wardrobe choices. In the casual words of a friend who believes that girls have more rights than boys. In the structures of society that dictate birth control rights and the youngest permissible age for marriage. In the hospital. In the workplace. In the beauty magazines. In the kitchen. In traditional roles. In virtue. In honour. Just another day in the everyday violence of being born a woman