Fearless Collective

12/05/2026

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 🍃

12/05/2026

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 🍃

08/05/2026

💧 A well painted into our mural, helped bring to life a forgotten source of water in the desert.

The revival of Maniyara beri will serve as a pilot for the revival of 4 more beris in the Sanwata village, Jaisalmer. Renewing neglected, ancient wells or beris, makes the villagers in the region resilient and self-sufficient in the face of ever-worsening heat waves in the years to come.

Project funded by and in partnership with, the village of Sanwata, , and

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Learn more about our work from link in bio 🔗

05/05/2026

Through the patronage of , Fearless raised USD 13,800 to revive the Maniyara beri (मनियारा बेरी), an ancient well in Sanwata village, Degrai Oran, which is one of the largest sacred groves of Rajasthan.

The village sarpanch (headman) and villagers partnered with and in this revival, which ensured they had ownership of the beri and its maintenance.

04/05/2026

04/05/2026

Through the patronage of , Fearless raised USD 13,800 to revive the Maniyara beri (मनियारा बेरी), an ancient well in Sanwata village, Degrai Oran, which is one of the largest sacred groves of Rajasthan.

The village sarpanch (headman) and villagers partnered with and in this revival which ensured they had ownership of the beri and its maintenance.

02/05/2026

☀️ Currently, as summer temperatures hit record highs and heat waves sweep across large parts of India, we remember our time with in Jaisalmer.

Born in Sanwata, one of the twelve villages around Deg Rai Mata Oran, he is a leading environmentalist and community organiser in the Oran Bachao Movement.

Sumer Singh says,
‘Oran sab hi ka hai, bas yeh dekhna hai ki kaun aage aayega’,
the oran belongs to us all, it’s just a matter of who steps forward to protect it.

He has been working tirelessly to protect the Orans that are being officially deemed as ‘wastelands’. Making it easier to dispossess local communities for the creation of solar and wind farms, destroying delicate ecosystems that make the land naturally resilient to the changing climate.

🔗 Read more about Sumer Singh’s work and Oran Bachao movement in our reading list in bio.

Project in partnership with

30/04/2026

We went to Jaisalmer during the most testing time of their year: the anticipation for rain makes the air heavy, and we quickly realized that even the walls were thirsty. We learned from Chattar Singh ji, a farmer, archive of wisdom on desert ecologies and pioneer in water management systems that in this land, every being, every entity, human or not – is alive. Every seed has a kul, a lineage, and every cloud a name despite seeing fewer than 40 days of rain a year. That no auspicious task on this land can begin without the blessing of the sugan chidiya, the auspicious bird.

We painted this mural of abundance, into walls that have stood for centuries as the granary of the Jaisalmer Fort.

For infinitely longer, the khejri has protected this land and her people. It stands in the centre of our mural affirms:
Main iss dharti ki chaya hoon.
I am the shelter of this land.

🔗 Watch our film, Dharti - link in bio, to see how this process came to life.

Project in partnership with
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27/04/2026

When the women of Samwata joined us, they showed us how to create mandana, as taught to them by their mothers, and their grandmothers. Mandana paintings using earth, lime, white clay and dung not only cool down houses in the pulsing heat of the desert but are also ritual practice to protect home and hearth ⛅️

Women very often bear the heaviest brunt of their changing landscapes, in walking further to collect water, in eating less to feed the bellies of their children and in fighting patriarchal systems.

This mural highlights the knowledge systems, labour, resilience of the generations of women from the Oran Bachao Movement.

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Ecology

24/04/2026

Desert communities in the Thar draw rings around the periphery of orans, with kesar (saffron) and doodh (milk) to mark them as sacred. This ties them to the oran in unspoken promise: no one hacks a single branch from the native trees, or tills a square inch of oran land.

As these communities become increasingly vulnerable to the climate crisis, we spoke to women from Samwata village, to understand how the land shelters them from luu (heatwaves) and akal (famine). This group of intergenerational women form a part of the Oran Bachao Movement, which is fighting to preserve this delicate eco-system from large-scale ‘development’ projects.

Read more about the Oran Bachao movement from our reading list in the bio.

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