Priyanka Paul
Navi Mumbai
Finding feet as poster girl of gender rights through art
Artist Priyanka Paul, who runs the Instagram handle @artwhoring, shot to fame with the Goddesses series, where she offered an alternative to the traditional images by presenting idols as "badass and liberated". The series was based on the poem Pantheon by Harnidh Kaur.

Now, Paul has shed her own inhibitions to pose nude for Paper, a New York City-based independent magazine that focuses on popular culture and fashion. The article spoke to queer people post the Section 377 judgement in India and what this new sense of "freedom" meant. "It was extremely empowering," gushes Paul, who has tackled menstruation, patriarchy and gender fluidity through her art. "I felt fierce, I felt real."