Women Walk at Midnight

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Travancore Palace
Teil der Reihe: Empowerment - Art and Feminisms | Curated by Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch und Uta Ruhkamp

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Women Walk at Midnight is the practice of women walking, together, at night on the streets of our cities.
We walk, when we want to, where we want to.
We walk, because we can!

We do not seek permission to walk. We just walk.
We believe that we are as much citizens of our cities as the men who pass us by at night. The roads - long, narrow, wide and short, with their potholes, bylanes, broken pavements, well lit and not, with their trees and flyovers and the constant din of construction of ever growing cities - are also ours to occupy. We walk, when we want to, where we want to.

These are not organised protests and yet, this does not mean that the walks are not in protest.
This is a way to resist and push back on what is socially and culturally ‘disallowed’ to women. We take strength in our togetherness, wear what we want, often put on some music, and meander through our city.

The walks are non-ticketed, non ‘sponsored’, for women, by women.
The walks are organised by group of volunteers and advisors, and are open to all those who were assigned as female at birth, or who identify as ‘woman’.

We walk at midnight, but midnight shifts based on where we are.
We have walked at 8 pm, 10 pm, 12 midnight, 2 am, and even at 4 am (see our Phoolon ki sair)!. A few times, we have walked all night - from 8 pm to 6 am. The meaning of midnight shifts, based on where we are and who we are.

We walk, because we can.
…in the hope that by walking continuously, we will finally walk into the day that each woman can walk, on the street, alone, at midnight. Everywhere.

Women Walk at Midnight

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