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Photo Courtesy: Jebunnessa Chapola<\/p>\n
Banglar Gaan O Kotha \u00a0(BGOK), which is a multicultural community \u00a0radio show geared towards addressing social justice, feminist, and social equality issues in Saskatoon, Canada. Moreover, BGOK aims providing various information and topics, which is geared towards the diasporic immigrant community, especially from the Indian subcontinent. The weekly Bangla radio show is hosted in Bangla as well as English to cater to numerous audiences voluntarily since last four\u00a0years. You can listen to it online from any parts of the world. Click on the link http:\/\/www.cfcr.ca\/onair, every Sunday Bangladesh time 10.00 pm and Saskatoon time 10.00 am.It is an informative and entertaining weekly radio program, of interest to the general.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, I came up with a show on body positivity. After numerous discussions on this topic with little girls in our community. My co-host: Jebunnessa Chapola and I finally\u00a0presented the show on-air at CFCR.90.5 Saskatoon community radio.<\/p>\n
Fostering a sense of body positivity is very important for women in today\u2019s day and age,\u00a0especially when popular culture and social media occupy a sizeable portion of our lives. Popular\u00a0culture creates our fantasies, and social media gives us a \u201ccelebrity moment\u201d, where we want to\u00a0put up our best picture and coolest status. Often times, we girls\/women spend hours gazing\u00a0wistfully at the slender celebrity body of our \u201cgirl crush\u201d actor. And dream of having a body like\u00a0her and scorning ourselves for our \u201cfat\u201d and\/or \u201cskinny\u201d arms and legs; having love handles\u00a0instead of a six-pack abs. We avoid wearing certain dresses because of insecurity regarding\u00a0certain body parts. Well, the good and the bad news is that even actress go through the same kind\u00a0of insecurity like us normal girls. But, one has to remember that there is a huge difference\u00a0between how actresses look on-screen versus in her real life. She has a battery of people working\u00a0with her off screen along with heavy dose of technology to make her attractive on -screen. It is\u00a0someone\u2019s full-time job to decide her diet, make-up, and clean up her smallest zit with editing\u00a0before her picture surges on a public platform. It looks surreal, but this entire process takes\u00a0humongous resources, and is unworkable for any normal girl\/woman.<\/p>\n
Life is not about looking picture perfect, but about eating healthy, being fit, acquiring a\u00a0new skill, and loving yourself by embracing your flaws. Your skin color, body type, height etc.\u00a0define you. It is your pride rather than a drawback. Carving out a niche for oneself is very\u00a0important. This fosters the development of feminist consciousness, which emphasises\u00a0maintaining good hygiene rather than trying to look perfect for the next Facebook with the most\u00a0updated makeup in pursuit of getting \u201clikes\u201d \u201cloves\u201d, and \u201cwow\u201d. There is nothing wrong if you\u00a0feel like wearing a sleeveless dress showing your \u201cimperfect\u201d arms. People who genuinely love\u00a0you, will do so irrespective of your size. If someone bullies you based on you \u201clooks\u201d, they are\u00a0simply don\u2019t deserve you. No one, even the most beautiful actresses, don\u2019t wakes up perfect.<\/p>\n
Women who had enough vision, talent, and leadership qualities could actually make a\u00a0difference to the world; their looks never played any part in their achievements. Thus, it is\u00a0important to be this woman rather than the one who sizzles the screen with her \u201cperfect body\u201d.\u00a0The definition of \u201cperfect\u201d varies, and you are perfect the way you are. Be healthy, happy, and a\u00a0boss. Next time, when we spend hours discussing clothes or make up, let us discuss it from\u00a0artistic angle. There is always a perfect dress for a perfect body. The mind is the most beautiful\u00a0organ in a woman\u2019s body and cultivating a healthy mind is most important for women and little\u00a0girls. Women are capable of great achievements; it is she rocks the cradle rules the world. A\u00a0healthy mind, body, and positive attitude encourages such great achievements, not any physical\u00a0attributes. So be healthy, happy, brave, and compassionate.<\/p>\n
Srijita Sarkar,
\nHost of Banglar Gaan O Kotha,
\nCFCR Community radio, Saskatoon and
\nPhD student in Sociology,
\nUniversity of Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n
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