Monday, October 17, 2016

India's comic-book superheroine trains her powers on acid attacks...

Two years after unveiling a comic about a rape survivor turned superhero who takes on her abusers, film-maker Ram Devineni is using a sequel to highlight the acid attacks that maim and scar hundreds of women in India every year.

Priya’s Shakti was the first Indian comic book of its kind, using augmented reality technology to tell the story of a young rural woman who is gang-raped and consequently shamed by her family and community.

After praying to the Hindu goddess Parvati, Priya gains the strength, or “shakti”, to fight sex crimes, and flies around India on a tiger, helping other victims to win justice.

In the sequel, Priya’s Mirror, the superhero holds up a mirror as she convinces acid-attack survivors that there is more to them than their scars, and that they need not hide.

“Priya is a flying superhero. For survivors of rape and acid attacks, to see characters like themselves being represented in art and pop culture is pretty cool,” said Devineni, a creator of the series, who is based in the US. Full story...

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