# @feminist on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNlNrPIx-ya
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-20T15:14:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** FEMINIST (@feminist) — https://gondola.cc/feminist

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Shred the Patriarchy, India, 2024 by chantalpinzi.photography  🇮🇳🛹📸 

Be transported to Janwaar, a rural Indian village where a skatepark has become a powerful vehicle for change—challenging untouchability, gender inequality, illiteracy, and alcoholism—while opening space for women to imagine and build a different future. 

“India, the world’s most populous country with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, only has a handful of female skaters. It is here that Shred the Patriarchy comes to life, portraying how – against prejudice and threats – some women have rebelled, balancing on a board and transforming skateboarding into a form of resistance against the patriarchy. Through the art of falling and getting back up, these women challenge stereotypes, fight marginalization and reclaim public spaces in both urban and rural areas. 

Many have managed to avoid arranged marriages, while others have gained financial independence and earn respect within their communities by skateboarding. It is with these simple yet revolutionary gestures that young Indian women make the patriarchal system tremble, reclaiming the freedom to imagine something different for themselves: to be a voice and no longer an echo.”
💬 chantalpinzi.photography 

Chantal Pinzi is a documentary photographer based in Berlin. Her work addresses issues of resilience in fractured and marginalized communities through the voices of women. Through her practice she analyzes and deconstructs the complexity of our society by capturing and conveying narratives that challenge oppressive systems.

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