JayDee Milo on Instagram: "She didn’t disguise herself to deceive anyone. She did it to survive. After losing her husband, Petchiammal was left alone with a newborn daughter in a world that wasn’t safe for women like her. So she became “Muthu”—cut her hair, wore men’s clothes, worked jobs women weren’t protected in, and used men’s public spaces simply because that’s where she faced less danger and more respect. For 30 years, she painted houses, worked in tea shops, and took labor jobs in male-do