Sanitary Panels
| Sanitary Panels | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Rachita Taneja |
| Current status/schedule | Ongoing |
| Launch date | 15 June 2014 |
Sanitary Panels is an
feminist angle, Sanitary Panels comments upon social justice topics ranging from discrimination to victim blaming. Taneja started her webcomic on Facebook
in June 2014 and has since accumulated over 150,000 followers across social media platforms.
Content
Rachita Taneja's Sanitary Panels uses a
The Royal Existentials, Inedible India comics, Why Loiter?, Blank Noise, and various other Indian webcomics. The webcomic covers other topics as well, such as net neutrality.[2]
Development
Rachita Taneja uploaded the first strip of Sanitary Panels on
sanitary pads.[3]
Taneja cofounded the
Me Too movement.[4] In 2017, Sanitary Panels was covered by the Obama Foundation in a YouTube video, in which Taneja talks about the responsibility she feels to make her content as accurate and fair as possible as it reaches millions of people. Taneja wishes to contribute to social justice through her comic strips.[5]
Taneja finds that humour is highly effective when communicating complex ideas to large groups of people, claiming that "the best thing about the [online] medium is its inclusiveness."[6]
Impact
Sanitary Panels has over 75,000 followers on Facebook, over 95,000 followers on Instagram, and 20,000 followers on Twitter. Taneja was one of the leading people behind the net neutrality movement in 2015, and her art was used en masse during the Citizenship Amendment Act protests.[7]
References
- ^ Bangera, Aneesha (2016-03-20). "Comic Relief". The Hindu.
- ^ Seker, Archanaa (2016-08-31). "A strip on social media that can change the world". The New Indian Express.
- ^ Mantri, Geetika (2016-09-19). "Stick figures with food for thought: Hilarious web-comics making feminism fun". The News Minute.
- ^ "Facebook takes down Sanitary Panels comic criticising it, restores it after several hours". Scroll.in. 2018-11-06.
- ^ Obama Foundation, Meet Rachita Taneja and Sanitary Panels, retrieved 2019-01-19
- ^ Choksi, Nidhi (2015-12-13). "A new superhero has emerged, the web comic". Hindustan Times.
- ^ Majumdar, Meghna (2019-12-23). "How art on social media became the face of anti-CAA protests". The Hindu.