The music workshop: a collage.

Vagina experience sharing:

What does this word mean?
And in kerala?
Is there a word for vagina in Malayalam?
And what does this part of the body mean to you and me.

As we talk of it,

Someone tells us
How she does not believe
She exists below her face.

Someone shares her childhood concept of childbirth
Penis like a lizard’s tail
That goes into vagina
And turns to a child!

Someone lets us know
How she learned to masturbate at a very small age
And how she hated men
When she got to know their intention of touching her
Was purely sexual.

And periods.
Ooh. Bloody.
Still/ and hence pleasurable.

Sexuality, gender,…….and music/songs:

We know how the male song-writer has always stereotyped women
And to some extend men.

Its been so so dangerous for her…
As we walk down, we find.
Shy, well mannered, beautiful, white-skinned, ….
All she’s supposed to be.
And more, a slave to “her” man.

When we analyse and try writing differently,
We understand how successful they are
In making these images
“normal”
and how this normality penetrates even when we understand.
And when we write songs like
“Ella uduppum azhichittu..”
(I drop all that I wear
and I walk into the rain..)
we know this song is not acceptable for our own moralistic ears.

Have we made our space yet?
Have we created the audience just to HEAR what we are speaking of?

But then.
This is all we can do. Today.
Try creeping..
On to this tree and suck it dry…..

And so.
We make songs, on clitoris, on breasts,
On love and what not.
About 5 songs.

Lastly, Love…:

Love happened..
And so much………