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#INeverAskForIt Solidarity With #MeToo  Dear All Women, Allies, Fellow Action Sheroes, Akeli Awaara Azaads, Survivors of sexual assault, All Persons, Greetings from the midst of a good turbulence. The denial is breaking. We are speaking. We are listening in. This is revolution - one woman, one Action Shero at a time. Create A Listening Circle  28th October, 2018  Meet this Sunday, October 28th, 2018, in Bangalore, to Listen in. Survivors of violence, each of us in varying degrees echo, that we feel safe when we are heard, we feel safe when we are believed. We feel safe when we do not have to defend ourselves, over and over again. I Action Shero, am your safe space, as you are mine. #INeverAskForIt. The Listening Circle is an invitation to co create a safe space through the act of listening and echoing. It is facilitated over a two hour period. Listen, also invites participants to bring in the garment they wore when they experienced sexual assault, threat, abuse, intimidation, or discrimination. The garment is memory, witness, voice. It resonates " I Never Ask For It ". Bring your garment to build the I Never Ask For It mission. We Are Done Defending.  REGISTER HERE Is there something you want to ask that we might have missed? Leave a question, or two here: Listening Circle FAQ Share Tweet Forward Participate. Collaborate. Co Create. #INeverAskForIt In Solidarity- Blank Noise We will continue to create a safe space to speak, be heard, strengthen, unite. We will continue to leap into designing actions; interventions that emerge from imagining the world we want and desire.   We will sleep in public parks (Meet To Sleep) Talk with strangers (Talk To Me) Walk Alone at night Resonate #INeverAskForIt    We will continue our fight to end victim blame and assert our right to live defenceless. Akeli Awaara Azaad.  We will continue to reach out, call you in, take shape with your voice, your experiences, your truth. You are the Action Sheroes. Upcoming Events List : Call To Action December 1st, 2018 Participate / Partner to build I Never Ask For It intervention. The nature of action will be shared in the first week of November. Register here  View past interventions here.   December 16th, 2018  #MeetToSleep Action Sheroes assert the right to live free from fear and defenceless. Take a nap in your public park this December. Build it where you are.  Register here  Know more about Meet To Sleep here.  Special Mention Cheer on!  #AkeliAwaaraAzaad s are rising !  There are 500 of you, across cities and places including Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Berlin, Chennai, Hazaribagh, Jaipur, Jabalpur, Belgrade, Karachi and more!  Follow the #AkeliAwaaraAzaad  narratives on instagram.com/blanknoiseactionheroes and get your very own AAA here !   #AkeliAwaaraAzaad Arundhati Ghosh View the poem translation here. Donate to Blank Noise  We are grateful to this community of Blank Noise friends and allies who have also donated before. Thank you . Received with gratitude.