This project consists of quotes and images from interviews with 19 women across Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, archival photos, and art work capturing the everyday lives of women. Inspired by the International Wages for Housework movement, started by feminists of the 1970s, Mai Ni Meriye seeks to understand housework from women at the grassroots level and humanize the subject. The larger goal of the project is to galvanize interest in the “labor of love” from small village discussions over tea to mainstream platforms with influential voices–all in service of a new perspective on women and housework. Website: mainimeriye.com
Concept and Production by Aashna Singh Photographs, Book Design by Farheen Fatima, and Print by SV Photographic
Dimensions: 4 x 6"
Materials: Classic Ivory 100gsm (matt coated), Soft Binding (Cover-250gsm) matt coated, HP Indigo Printing
Aashna Singh
(River North)
Aashna Singh is a producer and curator, currently pursuing a Masters in Gender and Sexuality studies in the division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. After completing her undergraduate degree from Barnard College in 2019 in Economics, she worked for the city of New York, a legal non-profit organization, a luxury fashion brand, and then eventually traveled to India to pursue a passion project on womens’ unwaged reproductive labor which resulted in Mai Ni Meriye.