How good is your feminism?

Ilustrator and comics creator Pia Alizé Hazarika was at a party in Delhi, a little over three years ago, when someone ended a discussion by calling her a “bad feminist”. Because I felt that I might just get very angry doing it by myself, and I needed an outside voice.” Collaborating over a Google Docs Excel sheet, Hazarika and Jogi charted out 30 weeks of comic content, tackling everything from the current schools of feminist thinking, the way the movement was being portrayed in media and pop culture, as well as its misappropriation by brands and celebrities. The year 2017, when the comics first came out, was a time of what Hazarika calls “scorched earth fighting” on social media, as a new wave of vocal feminists inspired by the online #MeToo movement fought seemingly incessant online battles with reactionary men’s rights activists. “It was a very messy time, especially on social media, and eventually we came to the conclusion that it’s okay if you’re figuring this out, and here’s a bunch of guidelines to work with,” says Jogi, adding that the two had to do a lot of reading for each strip in order to take often complex academic concepts and make them accessible to a general reader.