If you'd like to support Trans Artists in Bangalore, India while nourshing your skin & hair with Ishq's Ancestral Healing - then this Ishq Box is for you!
Build Your Own Ishq Organic Gift Set! Customize your skincare & haircare routine using our Ancestral Healing. Choose 4 Ishq Skincare & Haircare Products
that speak to you the most, and we will package it with care & love in our curated Ishq Box that is hand painted by Trans Women Artists of the Aravani Art Project
in Bangalore, India.
Go on, make it personal. Choose your 4 of your favorites-
You can listen to the story in the video above, but here's a little snapshot:
Working with/for Trans Women was a childhood dream that came true in 2020 while I was in India, helping take care of my Dad while he was going through chemotherapy.
"Aravani Art Project is a Trans-women and cis-women led art collective. While the visibility of Transgender people, Gender non- confirming people and folks from the queer community is increasing in popular culture and daily life, they still face everyday discrimination, stigma and systemic inequality. Aravani Art Project's mission is to bring about change in the way the society views the LGBTQIA+ community by advocating the idea of reclaiming spaces in this world through different art projects and raising awareness to create a voice for the community through the Arts"
The Trans Women artists of The Aravani Art Project are wall mural artists who had lost all their livelihood because of COVID. This Ishq Box project provided them with a fair living wage for months.
I cannot tell you how much this project meant to me. Watching my Dad fight cancer, and seeing the strongest man I know slowly deteriorate in front of my eyes, while I had to be strong for him & my family - was one of the hardest things I have done. Shanthi, Chandri, Purushi, Prarthana, Thara & their friends infused my life with joy & hope. That is what I hope you can feel when you hold these boxes in your hands - the joy that went into making them for you.
