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An archive of the I Never Ask For It mission since 2004.
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@BlankNoise #INeverAskForIt : Tweet What You Wore When You Experience Sexual Harassment . Twitter 2009 - ongoing

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A brief timeline of the ongoing
#INeverAskForIt Mission

2020

2019

I Never Ask For It with multiple feminist allies, stakeholders, organisations including barkha dutt (journalist), Atishi Marlena (politician), feminist institution and networks including JAgori, Breakthrough and more. Event - tweetathon #INeverAskForIt

I Never Ask For It : inaugural Exhibit at Ford foundation gallery , titled ‘Perilous bodies’. Curator Jaishri Abichandani

I NEVER ASK FOR IT : #Everythingiwanttoknow about ending sexual harassment and victim blame at the workplace and campus, at wework, Galaxy, Bangalore

I NEVER ASK FOR IT : LISTENing circle at wework, Galaxy, Bangalore

I never ask for it Campus talk, Srishti institute of art, design and technology

I Never Ask For It Campus + I + You Student roundtable

I Never Ask For It : Walk Towards Healing

I Never Ask For It Student listening circle, Cubbon Park, Bangalore

I never ask for it Campus talk, William And Mary University, Williamsburg, USA

I never ask for it Campus talk, Christ deemed to be university, Bangalore

I never ask for it Campus talk, Mount carmel college, Bangalore

I never ask for it Artist talk, 1 Shanti road, Bangalore

2018

I Never Ask For It: Listening Circle, Kolkata

I Never Ask For it: Listening Circle, Bangalore

I Never Ask For It: Walk Towards Healing

Shivaji Nagar, Bangalore Action Sheroes / Heroes / Theyroes #INeverAskForIt

#INeverAskForIt Grinnell College (2018)

#INeverAskForIt Grinnell College (2018)

I Never Ask For It Talk, Concordia University

I Never Ask For it guest lecture, Mcgill university

I Never Ask For It workshop at Studio XX, Montreal

I Never Ask For It: Unite to Eradicate Blame

2017

#INeverAskForIt Listening Circle with Studio XX , Montreal

#INeverAskForIt Workshop with Studio XX , Montreal

High School Students at Nagoya International School, Japan join the I Never Ask For It Mission. Facilitated by their teacher, Tulika Bathija — High School Students at Nagoya International School, Japan join the I Never Ask For It Mission.
Facilitated by their teacher, Tulika Bathija

Walk Alone

I Never Ask For It Week

I Never ask for it week: A very deliberate manel

I never ask for it week : walk alone and exhibition at Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore

I never ask for it week: Action Shero Listening circle

2016

Say How You Feel It : I Never Ask For It Translation

I Never Ask For It: Evidence GatheReR S

I Never Ask For It: Evidence Gathering

#INeverAskForIt Network-Nominate an 'Action Hero'!

2015

Action Heroes : Evidence Gather ers

I Never Ask For It Sticker Project

I Never Ask For It with Tibetan Womens Association

2014

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2013

I Never Ask For It

2012

I Never Ask For It Call for Action

I NEVER ASK FOR IT: clothes collection drive (Bangalore)

I NEVER ASK FOR IT: clothes collection drive (Bangalore)

I NEVER ASK FOR IT: clothes collection drive (calcutta)

#INEVERASKFORIT TWEET NOW Feb 17-27

I Never Ask For It on Facebook

2010

(2008)

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Twitter and Facebook event. Tweet what you wore when you experienced harassment. (2010)

2009

I Never Ask For It I Different languages

I Never Ask For It

I Never Ask For It Build your own evidence

I never ask for it CALL TO ACTION

I Never ask for it (BombaY)

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2008

(2008) #INeverAskForIt poster

Action Shero Sunayana Roy, Kolkata (2008) #INeverAskForIt dialogues

WE NEVER ASKED FOR IT- BUILDING CLOTHES INSTALLATION , India Habitat Center, DELHI in association with PSBT India.

i Never Ask for it - Exhibit in Bangalore, Max mueller Bhavan, Goethe Institute.

2007

Max Mueller Bhavan, Blank Noise Exhibit, #INeverAskForIt, Bangalore (2007)

Exhibition invite to #INeverAskForIt at Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore (2007)

India Habitat Center , Exhibit led by Delhi Action Sheroes/ Heroes, with PSBT India (2007)

Action Sheroes Annie Zaidi, Abigail Crisman, Noveen Swapnabh installing #INeverAskForIt , Delhi (2007)

India Habitat Center , Exhibit led by Delhi Action Sheroes/ Heroes, with PSBT India (2007)

Kolkata Action Sheroes/ Heroes Theyroes building #INeverAskForIt (2007)

Kolkata Action Sheroes/ Heroes Theyroes building #INeverAskForIt (2007) : Shuktara Lal, Madhura Chakraborty, Dana Roy, Sunayana Roy, Saptarshi Chakraborty, Insiya Poonawala, Monideepa Mondol, Purba Sarkar and more.

2006

2005

BLANK NOISE at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria with Srishti School of Art Design and Technology

#INeverAskForIt Exhibit, Ars Electronica

http://blog.blanknoise.org/2005/04/contact-jasmeen-blanknoisegmail.html#links

Poster dated 2004, Blank Noise.

CALL TO ACTION : JOIN #INEVERASKFORIT

© 2003,Blank Noise * @2004, I Never Ask For It

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On Independence Day , 11 rapists were garlanded.
11 rapists and murders were celebrated .
Sweets distributed.

2 days later MLA #CLRaulji denied the crime saying that that the rapists were #brahmin , were ‘sanskari’ and couldn’t ha

2005. Action Sheroes brought their garment testimonials to group meetings and gatherings. We made a truth visible to ourselves. #INeverAskForIt
#community ending #victimblame
#rightotobedefenceless

Action Shero Anonymous built #INeverAskForIt with this sari garment testimonial in 2009.

Speak if it serves you.
We are here to listen.
DM Connect to bring your garment testimonial.

Love,
Blank Noise Team
#INeverAskForIt

What makes so many of us, across geographies, towns, places , identities remember what we wore when we experienced gender-based violence?
Unite to end victim blame. Send the garment you wore when you experienced violence or threat or discomfort. If y

We are done defending.
Towards the right to be defenceless.
#INeveraskforit

Bring the garment you wore when you experienced threat, violence or intimidation.

Bring the garment you wore from an experience unnamed, yet not forgotten.

Your garment

#INeverAskForIt: Bring the garment you wore when you experienced threat, violence or intimidation. Bring the garment if it is an unnamed memory. Bring the garment you wore from an experience unnamed, yet not forgotten. We are here to listen. DM conne

This Independence Day. We declare. #WeAreDoneDefending.
To live in a state of defence and fear is not freedom. We deserve more. We deserve the #righttobedefenceless . Claim the words #INeverAskForIt #akeliawaaraazaad #independenceday

Surprise note from an #ActionShero visiting #Bangalore . #WalkAlone Together .

#StepByStepGuideToUnpologeticWalking #AkeliAwaaraAzaad #righttobedefenceless #INeverAskForIt #tatoo #memory #body #feministsolidarity #disobey #unapologetic #walk #endgb

Language and performance. I purposefully wear my #akeliawaaraazaad tee especially while commuting. There have been solidarity glances. Conversations especially in the closed - women only- section of an airport security check in. There is the awkward

Action #Shero/ #Theyro Veda's quote has been sourced from a facilitated
conversation on being #AntiCaste #ActionSheroes / Theyroes / Heroes. Veda is in 12th grade.

#INeverAskForIt #solidarities #highschool.

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