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The Fearless Collective

Photo of seven women standing in front of colorful street art on the side of a building.
Website
fearlesscollective.org

The Fearless Collective is building a movement of women across South Asia using beauty and art to reclaim public space with their stories and affirmations. Since their founding as a collective 5 years ago they have seen it affirmed again and again: beauty saves. It began with a single poster made by Indian artist Shilo Shiv Suleman in a moment of national trauma. Over the past four years, Shilo has developed a Public Art methodology that places affirmations at the center of social change; using beauty as resistance and Fearlessness as a tool for reclamation.

“We believe given the ugliness of oppressions we fight, the creation of beauty is an act of resistance.”
Shilo Shiv Suleman

We have created over 40 public monuments in 16 countries, working with communities most invisible or marginalized – including Muslim and Dalit women in India, Indegenous communities in Brazil and North America, communities affected by gang violence in Pakistan, Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and queer communities in Tunisia and Indonesia as they reclaim these public spaces with the images and affirmations they choose.

Fearless is fiscally sponsored by Social Good Fund, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit in USA, and accepts donations, grants and institutional partnerships and support. We have presented our work at AWID as one of the youngest feminist groups to lead a plenary, at the Global Forum of Democracy, Stockholm Institute of Peace, United States Institute of Peace, Cop26 and more showcasing our unique approach to peacebuilding and conflict mitigation through participative art.