Malaysia

Acrylic On Paper

Keep Your Laws Off My Body" is my defiance against damaging patriarchal, societal, and religious constructs and norms that constantly dictate how a woman should exist in society, as though society has a right to stake a claim over a woman's body, or how she should behave, or what she chooses to wear - or not wear, what shape her body should take.

This painting says, a woman's body is her own. That her body is more than ornamental, more than a commodity, more than merely reproductive, or for the pleasure of men. Her body belongs to her alone.

Every day, and especially on International Women's Day, I am saying, women have had enough. We are saying, "my body, my choice".

Enough. Keep your laws off my body.