2.35pm \u2013 3.15pm:<\/strong> Panel Discussion 1: \u201cThe Business of Fashion\u201d Soon after realizing there was no other option, she fought to pursue the arts anyway and started her Instagram account @hatecopy (now with 106k followers<\/strong>), in February 2015, where she shares her illustrations which depict the hilarious insights of diaspora culture and the significance of aunties in Desi culture<\/strong>, from perspectives that are both her own and those she has experienced.<\/p>\n One of her many claims to fame is the support she has gotten from people like Hollywood A-Lister, Mindy Kaling<\/strong>, who says, \u201cI\u2019m a big fan.\u201d<\/p>\n She has a very successful online store at www.hatecopy.com<\/strong><\/a> where she sells products with her cartoon art, and has just released a book called \u2018Trust No Aunty\u2019 <\/strong>at Indigo Books<\/strong> across Canada, to rave reviews, as well as at www.trustnoaunty.com<\/strong><\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text margin_bottom=”50″]\n PHOTO CREDIT<\/strong><\/p>\n Courtesy of Hatecopy[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [mk_page_section bg_image=”https:\/\/www.anokhiprestige.com\/preview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/marble-bg-purple.jpg” bg_position=”center top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_stretch=”true” video_color_mask=”rgba(0,0,0,0.5)” video_opacity=”0″ min_height=”0″ js_vertical_centered=”true” sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”65″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h1″ color=”#ffffff” size=”60″ force_font_size=”true” size_tablet=”50″ size_phone=”25″ font_weight=”400″ txt_transform=”uppercase” margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”Montserrat” font_type=”google” align=”center”]Speakers[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_padding_divider size=”30″][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][vc_row fullwidth=”true”][vc_column][mk_divider style=”thin_solid” thin_single_color=”#54548a” thickness=”10″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][mk_padding_divider size=”75″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row fullwidth=”true” fullwidth_content=”false”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”686″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h3″ color=”#da2127″ size=”30″ force_font_size=”true” size_tablet=”25″ size_phone=”20″ line_height=”80″ font_weight=”400″ txt_transform=”uppercase” margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”Montserrat” font_type=”google”]HATECOPY[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text margin_bottom=”10″] Cartoon Artist & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":395,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anokhiprestige.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anokhiprestige.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anokhiprestige.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anokhiprestige.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anokhiprestige.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anokhiprestige.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/693\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anokhiprestige.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anokhiprestige.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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BIO<\/h4>\n
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Maria Qamar aka Hatecopy<\/strong> is an artist and pop culture influencer and icon<\/strong> who lives and works in Toronto. She was raised a first generation Canadian in a traditional South Asian home, where a job in the arts was typically looked down upon as an “unstable career path.”<\/p>\n<\/h4>\n