Fearless Collective

Reflections from Women Deliver 📑

In Melbourne, Australia, Fearless Foundation for the Arts brought to a global audience three of its workshops led by its team members and ambassadors from the global majority 🌹

Through Tongues, ***rislit - our lead Storyteller, brought tomes of desire from South Asia, decolonising the way we approach and talk about sexuality and pleasure. Participants read poems from Pakistan and India alongside works by Indigenous women across the Pacific and q***r and trans authors, before finally writing a verse of their own onto red silken banners to carry home as heirlooms of imagined futures.

Through Border Softer, .nur , Fearless Ambassador from Uzbekistan, brought traces of her homeland and took the participants through a spiritual journey of remembrance and resistance. Using hair as a repository of embodied histories from South Asia, participants braided strands one after the other, recounting the pain they have been carrying and moving through a process of collective healing.

Through At the Root, .koinch , Fearless Ambassador from Nepal, explored our relationships with land and ecology. In a storytelling session, participants reflected on climate change in their countries, and their connections to the land, citing indigenous histories, caste, disability, and more. These reflections were transformed into affirmative climate posters using natural pigments, symbolising a way to return to the land, collective stewardship, and regenerative futures 🍃