Yoni ki design

• SACRED ART GALLERY • ŚAKTI-ŚIVA PORTALS • MAHĀVIDYĀS SERIES 1 • MAHĀVIDYĀS SERIES 2 • ŚAKTI PORTALS • TEMPLE ART • YANTRĀS • ĀTMA CITRA : SOUL PORTRAIT • KABĪR SERIES • AWAKENING SERIES • HANDCRAFTED LOGO ICONS • YAVANIKA SERIES • SKETCH BOOK • BOOK COVER ART • BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS • MUSIC ALBUM COVER ART • ABOUT In collaboration with Shushann Movsessian and Gemma Summers Nurturance, Empowerment & Inspiration for the Feminine Soul The sacred feminine is the universal feminine power expressed through the heart of Mother Earth – it is a uniting and nourishing energy that embraces all of humanity. The ‘Soulful Woman Guidance Cards’ will inspire and nurture your feminine soul, and support you in manifesting from this sacred feminine energy. These exquisite cards are illustrated by 26 handpicked, FEMALE VISIONARY ARTISTS from around the world including Rashmi Thirtha Jyoti. Link to buy the deck : (South Asian version of the Vagina Monologues) ; In collaboration with Tasveer Yoni Ki Baat is a growing collection of authentic, bold, vivid, tender, powerful and poignant stories narrated by South Asian women. YKB acknowledges that female sexuality is an essential aspect of identity, experience and expression. This space transforms and encourages South Asian women to express their challenges, hopes, dreams, breakdowns and aspirations for change’. -Tasveer Know more here –

Barnali Ghosh is a Berkeley designer, community historian, and walking/biking advocate. Ghosh is the co-creator of the monthly Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, one of the city’s most popular community history projects, telling the secret history of four generations of immigrant activists. The tour is based on original archival research and oral history, and attracts participants from across California. Her work has been featured in National Geographic, was voted Best of the East Bay, and received a national award from Asian Pacific Islanders for Historical Preservation. She was a lead organizer for the campaign to name Shattuck Avenue East “Kala Bagai Way,” the first downtown street named after a woman of color. She currently serves as the chair of the Berkeley Transportation Commission, and as the mayor’s appointee to the Planning Commission. A registered California Landscape architect, she's spent a decade designing public parks, schools, and streets across California and brings her experience to her commission and organizing work to develop local solutions to the global issue of climate change. She is on the coordinating committee of Walk Bike Berkeley, which advocates for a healthy, equitable, and sustainable transportation system in Berkeley. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Ghosh combined her focus on transportation safety and racial justice, as one of the lead advocates for the Berkeley Department of Transportation, a planned city departm...

FOUNDER’S NOTE Yoni Ki Baat in Seattle cautiously started as a project to begin a conversation about South Asian women’s sexuality. With an overwhelming embrace from the local South Asian community and its allies, it has served many purposes over the years. It’s been an exploration of artistic expression – at times its sexuality has been subtle, other times celebratory and very explicit, and at times painful. I’ve witnessed it be an incredible avenue for forming life-long deep solidarity and sisterhood among its participants. Last year, it made an enormous leap and proved to be a much-needed space of healing from familial, cultural, and state trauma that is rarely even spoken in privacy let alone to audiences of hundreds of people. In its 5th year, Yoni Ki Baat has gone beyond self-empowerment that says, “Excuse me, I am also human!” It makes the radical statement that the challenge to oppression does not have to simply be the liberal response of humanization. Rather it demonstrates that the response to oppression can be Divinization of all of us involved. In other words, Yoni Ki Baat bows to the audience saying, “The Goddess in me greets and honors the God/dess in you.” I view this as a quintessentially South Asian inclination that crosses over its religious and ethnic complexities. Farah Nousheen Co-founder of Tasveer, Aaina, and YKB; Organizer and participant of the first YKB in 2007 PRESS RELEASE Tasveer is proud to present Yoni Ki Baat (inspired by Eve Ensler’s Vagina...

• Community • Names in the News • Local • Business • Pictorials • Obituaries • Nation • World • Arts & Entertainment • Columns • On the Shelf • At the Movies • A-POP! • Publisher Ng’s blog • The Layup Drill • Travel • Health • Wayne’s Worlds • Opinion • Editorial • Commentary • Publisher Ng’s blog • Letters to the Editor • Classifieds • Community Calendar The cast of Yani Ki Baat 2011 (Photo by Siddhartha Saha) Before the Yoni Ki Baat (YKB) women discussed their vaginas, they sat around nervously at their first YKB workshop to answer the question, “Where are you from?” The stories of these women that come from this writing workshop would become the script for the 2012 Yoni Ki Baat performance. Yoni Ki Baat translates from Hindi as ‘Talk of the Vagina’ and is also referred to as the South Asian Vagina Monologues. In previous years, the show featured predominantly Indian women, but this year, the “Where are you from?” question carries a greater importance, as the women in this year’s program come from Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India. The Story Seattle’s first Yoni Ki Baat performance in 2005 was a single piece, which Farah Nousheen borrowed from San Francisco-based group the Yoni Ki Baat Sisters, and presented between a few other stories. The piece was a spontaneous addition, and the audience was not prepared for provocative terms like ‘penis’ and ‘vagina’ being used on stage. Nousheen and co-founder Rita Meher received angry e-mails from audience members. The situat...

• Community • Names in the News • Local • Business • Pictorials • Obituaries • Nation • World • Arts & Entertainment • Columns • On the Shelf • At the Movies • A-POP! • Publisher Ng’s blog • The Layup Drill • Travel • Health • Wayne’s Worlds • Opinion • Editorial • Commentary • Publisher Ng’s blog • Letters to the Editor • Classifieds • Community Calendar The cast of Yani Ki Baat 2011 (Photo by Siddhartha Saha) Before the Yoni Ki Baat (YKB) women discussed their vaginas, they sat around nervously at their first YKB workshop to answer the question, “Where are you from?” The stories of these women that come from this writing workshop would become the script for the 2012 Yoni Ki Baat performance. Yoni Ki Baat translates from Hindi as ‘Talk of the Vagina’ and is also referred to as the South Asian Vagina Monologues. In previous years, the show featured predominantly Indian women, but this year, the “Where are you from?” question carries a greater importance, as the women in this year’s program come from Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India. The Story Seattle’s first Yoni Ki Baat performance in 2005 was a single piece, which Farah Nousheen borrowed from San Francisco-based group the Yoni Ki Baat Sisters, and presented between a few other stories. The piece was a spontaneous addition, and the audience was not prepared for provocative terms like ‘penis’ and ‘vagina’ being used on stage. Nousheen and co-founder Rita Meher received angry e-mails from audience members. The situat...

• SACRED ART GALLERY • ŚAKTI-ŚIVA PORTALS • MAHĀVIDYĀS SERIES 1 • MAHĀVIDYĀS SERIES 2 • ŚAKTI PORTALS • TEMPLE ART • YANTRĀS • ĀTMA CITRA : SOUL PORTRAIT • KABĪR SERIES • AWAKENING SERIES • HANDCRAFTED LOGO ICONS • YAVANIKA SERIES • SKETCH BOOK • BOOK COVER ART • BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS • MUSIC ALBUM COVER ART • ABOUT In collaboration with Shushann Movsessian and Gemma Summers Nurturance, Empowerment & Inspiration for the Feminine Soul The sacred feminine is the universal feminine power expressed through the heart of Mother Earth – it is a uniting and nourishing energy that embraces all of humanity. The ‘Soulful Woman Guidance Cards’ will inspire and nurture your feminine soul, and support you in manifesting from this sacred feminine energy. These exquisite cards are illustrated by 26 handpicked, FEMALE VISIONARY ARTISTS from around the world including Rashmi Thirtha Jyoti. Link to buy the deck : (South Asian version of the Vagina Monologues) ; In collaboration with Tasveer Yoni Ki Baat is a growing collection of authentic, bold, vivid, tender, powerful and poignant stories narrated by South Asian women. YKB acknowledges that female sexuality is an essential aspect of identity, experience and expression. This space transforms and encourages South Asian women to express their challenges, hopes, dreams, breakdowns and aspirations for change’. -Tasveer Know more here –

FOUNDER’S NOTE Yoni Ki Baat in Seattle cautiously started as a project to begin a conversation about South Asian women’s sexuality. With an overwhelming embrace from the local South Asian community and its allies, it has served many purposes over the years. It’s been an exploration of artistic expression – at times its sexuality has been subtle, other times celebratory and very explicit, and at times painful. I’ve witnessed it be an incredible avenue for forming life-long deep solidarity and sisterhood among its participants. Last year, it made an enormous leap and proved to be a much-needed space of healing from familial, cultural, and state trauma that is rarely even spoken in privacy let alone to audiences of hundreds of people. In its 5th year, Yoni Ki Baat has gone beyond self-empowerment that says, “Excuse me, I am also human!” It makes the radical statement that the challenge to oppression does not have to simply be the liberal response of humanization. Rather it demonstrates that the response to oppression can be Divinization of all of us involved. In other words, Yoni Ki Baat bows to the audience saying, “The Goddess in me greets and honors the God/dess in you.” I view this as a quintessentially South Asian inclination that crosses over its religious and ethnic complexities. Farah Nousheen Co-founder of Tasveer, Aaina, and YKB; Organizer and participant of the first YKB in 2007 PRESS RELEASE Tasveer is proud to present Yoni Ki Baat (inspired by Eve Ensler’s Vagina...