What is it about?
Women in Indian universities are not allowed to get out of university accomodations at night. To raise their voice against it, they started a movement. They drew paintings on the wall to relay their message to the university authorities but also fellow students and raised awareness about the issue.
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Why is it important?
Street art is a new and upcoming category in India, and not many people have focussed on it. This paper allows readers to gain new perspective on street art through a South Asian perspective.
Perspectives
It is an important instance of noting down feminist histories. Every small movement counts. At the same time it contributes and learns to the movement before it and around it. Through this paper, one can see how simple tactics of street art allow one to talk about complex issues of nationalism, citizenship, and gender.
Paridhi Gupta
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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This page is a summary of: Art(s) of visibility: resistance and reclamation of university spaces by women students in Delhi, Gender Place & Culture, April 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0966369x.2019.1586652.
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