Carry paduaks in pots & walk
Thingyan, Myanmar
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April 2021
Women protesters in Myanmar carried pots of flowers and walked through the streets during the 2021 anti-coup movement, using the floral-laden pots as visible tokens of resilience and dissent against the military regime. The action involved participants such as domestic workers, factory labourers and women's groups who made the domestic object of a flower pot into a public symbol of opposition. As the broader movement around strikes and public marches unfolded, the walking processions of women with flowering pots illustrated both their leadership role and the creative ways in which protestors reclaimed ordinary items for political expression. The images of these flower-pot walks spread through social media, reinforcing the visibility of women in the resistance.
