Strength TogetHER : Cohort 12

  17th July, 2021 'When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure'. Losing someone you love is the hardest thing in the world to deal with.It is a kind of pain that you physically feel all over your body.Grief is synonymous with death.Its suffering of the worst kind. To make things easy and comfortable, Strength togetHER, Cohort 12 themed its session as 'Losing someone you loved- As the flower wither'.We were moderate by Miss Rosy Karna,  Psy.D candidate at Stanford University with a specialization in Clinical psychology.   The session started from 12 in the noon with active participants of 15 people through the virtual world of zoom which lasted for more than an hour. We started the session with a warm greetings and began the session with story telling- Our first speaker shared a story of how she lost one of her closest friend.Her friend was unwell since few days but the condition was not complicated.One day, she came to know about his death thro

10th July, 2021 “SHAVE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO, NOT BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO” Our third session of Strength TogetHER was themed as “Normalizing Body Hair” was focused on breaking the gender stereotype of girls needing to have a perfectly hairless body. Here, we discussed the complexities girls in general face in society for having body hair. Our session was moderated by Mrs.Bhawana Malla Baniya. This session had a participation of 20+ amazing girls and body hair being a hot topic to shame girls in our society, we decided to keep the floor open for everyone to share their stories. We proceeded the session with the speakers sharing their stories and experiences. Our first speaker shared how her male classmates used to bully her for having hair in her hands and face in her school days. Right after completing 10th grade, waxing and threading had become a routine for her. She used to visit the parlor every two weeks for the hair removal. It was in her college days that she realized she didn’t need t