The Extraordinary Woman Project

NAV - @nav.co “Recently, I got really sick and ended up in hospital; after getting used as a human pin cushion and going in and out of scans for a week I was told I may need a transplant if I don’t get better but they are still unaware of what caused this.”————I thought my life was completely over, I went underground and was a mess. I wouldn't talk to anyone and I lost all hope I had because the life expectancy after having a transplant is 5-20 years average.” “I don't know what it was, that night I was...

SIA @sia.kafle The Climb————“Growing up as a Nepali-Australian was confusing, my melanin differentiated me from my Australian friends, whereas my Aussie accent differentiated me from my parents. This liminal state cultivated an entrenched insecurity from an early age. All I wanted was to ‘fit in’. So, I remember coming home from grade five and shaving my legs in secret with my mothers’ razor, researching home remedies to make me lighter; resulting in rubbing my skin with lemon before every shower.————The worst part was, I was, so so paranoid about taking photos of myself within that period of my life that...