A New Kind of Superhero

Not your average comic, Priya’s Shakti is a new graphic novel out of India created to combat gender-based violence and fight the patriarchy. The hero, Priya, is a rape survivor who empowers women with help from the Hindu goddess Parvati and a tiger. At the Guardian, co-writer Ram Devineni says the impetus for the comic came after the Delhi bus gang rape two years ago, when he realized “sexual violence in India is not a legal issue but a cultural problem.”