The Rose / Gulab
Day Performance in Karachi, Pakistan
In the plant and flower kingdom, the Rose has no gender.
By dressing up as a man with Jhumka's, which lends into, visually, both genders, and entering male dominated spaces across Karachi, the performance aimed to disrupt the image of man and the image of woman, which is conditioned in the minds of people. By entering those spaces as an androgynous person, it also served to disrupt the spaces that only cater to and/or are operated with heterosexual men. I was accepted into those spaces, as I blended in quite naturally, which otherwise would have been a completely different experience and undertaking.