![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Given that you’ve used perfume as a structure, the memoir too is a force of opposition against what you term patramyths. On a Wednesday afternoon, Tanaïs and I spoke over Zoom about our Muslim, non-Indian South Asian identity and reality, decolonization and liberation, and perfume as language, freedom, and much more.īareerah Ghani: You speak of perfume as a sensuous act of resistance. Above all, they are proof of the magnificence of manifesting your authentic self, beyond the noise and corruption of the dominant culture. Tanaïs is a Brooklyn-based Bangladeshi American Muslim femme, a writer, an artist, a perfumer, founder of TANAÏS, the beauty and fragrance company. ![]() An exposé of the orientalist gaze, a battle against the eons of patriarchal notions that have oppressed women and femmes and created molds for sexual and gender identities, In Sensorium emerges as “an act of sensuous resistance”-much like a perfume-confronting what Tanaïs terms patramyths, “foundational lies and mythologies recorded in history to protect the powerful.” Trauma, pain, shame-there’s space held for it all, carved meticulously for the ones who have been denied visibility throughout history, encapsulated in exquisite writing, driven toward generational healing. ![]()
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