{"id":3658,"date":"2018-12-21T12:31:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:49","slug":"protesting-gender-violence-through-an-event-showcasing-essays-poetry-films-and-thought-provoking-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/protesting-gender-violence-through-an-event-showcasing-essays-poetry-films-and-thought-provoking-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesting gender violence through an event showcasing essays, poetry, films and thought-provoking discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humanising the world and empowering the society to find its own voice of protest to do away with gender and domestic violence \u2013 that\u2019s the idea behind the launch of the book, <em>Muffled Moans Unleashed<\/em>, which will be held at an event \u201cFeminine Fiesta\u201d at Iran Society, on Kolkata\u2019s Kyd Street, in collaboration with Green Tara Social Initiative on December 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeminine Fiesta\u201d \u2013 an event marked with thought-provoking panel discussions, film screenings and the book launch will celebrate the spirit of revolt against violence on women and children all over the globe.<\/p>\n<p>There will be thought-provoking panel discussions, book reading sessions on domestic violence by artists and intellectuals of Kolkata. There will be awareness through art, poetry and film screening sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The Kolkata contributors of <em>Muffled Moans Unleashed<\/em> include Santasree Chaudhuri, founder of Green Tara Social Initiative, Sufia Khatoon, Amit Shankar Saha, Anindita Bose, Jagari Mukherjee, Moinak Dutta, Mallika Bhaumik, Rita Bhattacharjee, Poulome Mitra Shaw among others. During the anthology release, they will participate in the series of cerebral responses to the subject \u201cViolence on Women\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Muffled Moans Unleashed<\/em> is a\u00a0collection of poetry, true stories and non-fiction essays on abuse and gender-based violence written by poets, writers, artists and activists from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Their sensitive, enlightening and intellectual voices echoing the spirit of dissent have been edited by Dr. Santosh Bakaya and Lopamudra Banerjee, two well-known socially conscious authors based in Jaipur and Texas respectively. There\u2019s the testimony and collective consciousness of nearly 150 poets and writers from USA, UK, Australia, Nigeria, Poland, Ghana, Mexico among other places.<\/p>\n<p>Banerjee, co-editor of the anthology, states in the preface of the book:\u00a0\u201cSome of them had to voice true stories of abuse that they had experienced, some had to turn to fiction to convey \u2018a brave, startling truth\u2019, for some, poetry was the choicest weapon to express their raw, naked, vulnerable emotions, unravelling the bitterness and inconsolable pain of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanising the world and empowering the society to find its own voice of protest to do away with gender and domestic violence \u2013 that\u2019s the idea behind the launch of the book, Muffled Moans Unleashed, which will be held at an event \u201cFeminine Fiesta\u201d at Iran Society, on Kolkata\u2019s Kyd Street, in collaboration with Green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":3659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gender"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}