'Borrowed' from the boys

"what's the greatest lesson a women should learn?"

that since day one

she's already had everything she needs in her

it's the world that convinced her she did not

- the sun and her flowers, rupi kaur

Zama Twala wearing self-made earrings. Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by: Tasha Pinto

In mom and dad's shoes. Photo by: Tasha Pinto

Red on red. Photo by: Tasha Pinto

Spoilt by choice. Better than the boys. Photo by: Tasha Pinto

For Zama Twala, she always admired her male cousins clothing, and explored ehr dads closest, feeling more powerful in suits that in 'feminine' wear. The answer to her insecurities lay not with any one of the women whose styles she had admired over the years — the women who always managed to turn a white T-shirt and lipstick into gold — but I always found myself staring at their well-dressed boyfriends instead. And so after years of watching women and with their well-dressed boyfriends, husbands, crushes, brothers, and colleagues, she realized that my style icons, I discovered, were dudes."

With films and pop culture icons like Wonderwoman making waves in media this year, and creating a new space for female characters, the impact of women in power and in typically male roles, is increasing. “Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world,” say creators and critics.

Wonder Woman’s origin story comes straight out of feminist utopian fiction. In the nineteenth century, suffragists, following the work of anthropologists, believed that something like the Amazons of Greek myth had once existed, a matriarchy that predated the rise of patriarchy. “The period of woman’s supremacy lasted through many centuries,” and it's clearly continuing and expanding today.

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