She calls herself an 'artist from the Internet,' as The Huffington Post writes, with a beautiful selection of her work on her website and Tumblr page where she regularly interacts with her online audience, many of them congratulatory comments and expressions of gratitude, as well as bravely facing criticism and the usual online trolling. With her attention to detail, bold display of body hair on women that we donвЂ™t usually see in commercial mainstream media, and seamless mixing of different art mediums and cultural influences, itвЂ™s no surprise that she has taken the art world by storm, online and off the internet. She shows images of beautiful women who have body hair in places that are otherwise deemed socially unacceptable and undesirable. My goal is to combine all of these aspects to project a bigger picture as to what I experience being a first-generation south Asian American, and also just a young female trying to understand where my place is in this,вЂќ she says to Dazed. I am very inspired by my own south Asian culture along with the meshing of todayвЂ™s American culture in regards to lifestyles. вЂњI am intrigued by youth culture and interactions вЂ“ on a psychological level. With traditional motifs and pop-culture imagery, AyqaвЂ™s work speaks loudly through bold colour blocking and eye-catching contrasting patterns. because it is something that shouldn't be a huge deal considering body hair is natural and the removal of it is a social construct, yet the judgement and pain that comes with having body hair is one that is harmful and needs to be stopped.вЂќ She adds: вЂњMy intentions are to normalise it. Her illustrations were an outlet for her frustration and through them she hopes to bring light to the fact that 'body hair is natural and removing it is a social construct that should not be mandatory,вЂќ as stated to The Huffington Post. Women of colour often have naturally darker and more visible hair for a young Ayqa, being of South Asian descent, growing up surrounded by fair-skinned light-haired people was not easy.

Amongst them is 20-year-old digital illustrator and photograph Ayqa Khan who through her body of work explores women in their natural, biological state in an east-meets-west multicultural aesthetic style. From multi-coloured armpit snapshots to prickly black stubbly legs, more and more women, artists or otherwise, are openly and vocally trying to change the way society perceives body hair on women. Works of artists like Polly Nor and Carol Rossetti for example, have had subversive takes on a number of issues that come under the umbrella of modern feminism and have opened up a public dialogue on things long left unquestioned. Last year we saw the resurgence of the body hair-activism and the anti-patriarchy debate make its way into the feminist discourse with growing depictions of this voluminous reality in the artistic world.

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