Pablo Picasso, The Blue Room, 1901, o.c., The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
‘As a writer, in general you wake up with certain feelings of doubt. As a woman writer, doubly so,’ sa​ys award-winning India-based writer Rosalyn D’Mello. ‘You have so much more to prove in the world and it is not easy to get your voice heard.’
As part of the recent Feminist Writers Festival, D’Mello joined Melbourne author of The Strays Emily Bitto to explore how creativity in women is both nurtured and rejected in their respective cultures.