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HERS IS OURS

From Violence Against Women to Healing Through Art. We create awareness on gender-based discrimination via artistic projects.

Meet the Team

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Co-Founder, Project Coordinator

Naomi Jahan

Naomi Jahan, a young women’s rights activist from France, interested in ground level actions. With a background in Public International Law and Human Rights, she researched on gender stereotypes as the core of discrimination.

She finds in art a bridge between legal vocabulary and social awareness. And for her, Hers is Ours is about using art to bring awareness within, channelising anger into healing, and bringing stories that move people of different cultures and backgrounds - because we do share a ground.

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Co-Founder, Art Director

Ayushi Shriramwar

Ayushi Shriramwar, an interdisciplinary artist from Nagpur, India. I've made a conscious effort to make my art practice more community immersive and work towards change-making. I’m and Co-founder of an environmental awareness organization ‘Nagruk’ and the Art Director of a feminist collective ‘Hers is Ours’,

My practice is about dissecting and understanding how power comes into play within a social hierarchy through gender, class, caste, and race.I Believe that the women’s, LGBTQ, and such minorities’ rights movements are the most important fight of our generation, second only to climate change. And both are intrinsically connected.

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Production Manager

Anal Jha

Anal is an interdisciplinary artist who believes in the political capacity of art. With a background in design and while exploring connections between different kind of disciplines such as music, poetry and cinema, he has also learnt to use art as a tool to voice discrimination - on a personal and collective level.

For Anal, Hers is Ours it is a collective perception which helps seeing the connection between the different layers of marginalization, and that from the angle of gender discrimination. Hers is Ours it is also about providing a safe space for creating artistic projects to address the same.

The Outsider Moving Art & Film Festival

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The Outsider Moving Art & Film Festival

Our Odyssey is Red

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Our Odyssey is Red

Robin's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (January 2020)

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Robin's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (January 2020)

Kavita's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (January 2020)

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Kavita's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (January 2020)

Sandhya's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (December 2019)

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Sandhya's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (December 2019)

Ashi's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (January 2020)

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Ashi's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (January 2020)

Tara's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (December 2019)

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Tara's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (December 2019)

Taniya's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (January 2020)

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Taniya's interview, Mumbai, Kranti home (January 2020)

Outside Moving Art and Film Festival Facts

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Days

12

Artists

18

Destinations

54

Screenings

HERS IS OURS COLLECTIVE FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

The Outsider Moving Art and Film Festival

The idea behind Hers is Ours is to talk about “Her story, which is our story”. And hence, Hers is Ours Collective for Women Empowerment. The Collective is currently being run by Anal, Ayushi, Naomi and Trina.

Anal is a poet and a musician. He has been exploring different kinds of wood instruments. Also, he curates experiences around feminist history.

Ayushi is a sculptor and multidisciplinary artist. It was her efforts that helped onboard ‘Artivists’ for the Outsider festival.

Naomi is a human rights activist, she uses art to bridge the gap between legal vocabulary and social awareness.

Trina is the co-founder of Kranti, an NGO in Mumbai who empowers daughters of sex workers. Her expertise helped in the conduction of menstrual awareness workshop.

Together, the team has managed to do something incredible. They focus on the sections of the society that have been neglected. It is essential for them to have people of different social and economic backgrounds gathered to question, together and as a whole, stigmatization.The team leaders believe that art in all its forms can be used as a conversation starter. They want to use art to spread awareness and give women a safe space to talk.

Where the East meets the West

We live in an India of paradox. One India is rich in its heritage, culture and economy. The other India consists of people who are deprived of the basic amenities in life and lack social support. They are far away from the glamor of metro cities of India. That being said, India is not the only country with such stark differences. It is this understanding that the HIO Collective is also trying to address. The identity of the collective being cross-national, they highlight the prevalence of gender-based violence regardless of borders and cultures.Their work is a cumulation of International and intersectional feminism.

The Outsider Moving Art & Film Festival

The Collective recently concluded a bold two months tour to 18 cities. It was a travelling art & film festival that covered remote areas of Uttar Pradesh & Rajasthan. The festival saw participation of young, budding artists from all over the country. With a curated and inclusive list of artists, the team showcased paintings, movies, storytelling, musical and dance performances and other forms of visual art to begin a conversation about violence against women.