Redefining Consent & Touch

Even after making rapid strides in terms of globalization and modernity added with multiple waves of feminism; we are a country notorious when it comes to violent crimes against women! Our girls are still afraid of being prone to something horrendous beyond imagination and rampant news of sexual abuse is a daily affair in the mainstream media. The concept of consent has been just a matter of theoretical proposition and hardly ever taken into consideration. Sadly, even the most intimate relations are bereft of consent. A country where we boast of the best educational institutions, ironically does not teach our children about ‘Touch’. Touch, which is enough to send a chill down our spine, by the wrong individual mostly gets unnoticed as either we are not ourselves aware or we take it for granted.

The Literary Mirror along with the renowned artist and illustrator; Dyuti Mittal has taken an initiative to sensitize numerous females across the country about dignity, touch, consent, the body, boundaries, and power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Author

Dyuti Mittal is a Delhi-based graphic novelist, illustrator, and artist. A graduate in Visual Communication Design from Srishti School of Art, Bangalore; she has more than 8 years of experience working as a graphic designer and illustrator. She had written and self-published her experimental graphic novel in 2009. Her numerous works have been exhibited at prominent galleries of the country such as Galerie Mirchandani+Streinrucke of Bombay. Dyuti has worked for various magazines and publishing houses which include names like The Aleph Book Company and Harper Collins. She has also provided lectures as a graphic novelist at Hyderabad University. Dyuti has recently completed her Summer Residency illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has written more than 15 short graphic novels since and continues to write more.