2016

To our Blank Noise community
Our celebrated Action Heroes, both near and far
Here's wishing you a fearless 2016! 

A year of dialogue, imagination, desire.
A year closer to ending victim blame 
A year of solidarity and kindness.
Happy New Year! 

We continue to work with full force towards building a large scale installation of garments to end victim blame.  In 2016, we look forward to research, collaborations, workshops, talks , interventions,  live action, fund raisers, new projects and much more. We look forward to working with you. Sign up to volunteer and or intern with Blank Noise in 2016.

Shout out to the Fabulous Action Heroes in 2015. 
Here's to you! 
Aarushi Kilawa
Aayush Bhingare
Abhishek Baxi 
Abhishek Chaudhury
Abhisikta Dasgupta
Akila K
Akash Nandi
Amalie Vikse
Ameya Gutta
Amrita Ganguly
Anandi Sharan
Annie Zaidi 
Anubhav Pradhan   
Anukriti Singh
Aru Bhartiya
Asfiya Farheen
Atreyeee Majumdar
Benjamin Stewart
Bhawana Udhani
Chirag Sharma
Denisse Albornoz
Divya Gulecha
Diya Pinto
Farya Lokhandwala
Garima Gupta 
Geetu George
Ila Bhat
Insiya Poonawala
Inti Maria
Ishani Ghose
Jayati Sood 
Jesril Bastina
Judith Druhe
Kaustubh Srikanth
Kinnary Doshi
Kiri Meili
Kunal Kiran
Lakshmi Kakodkar
Lijya Perayil 
Mahesha Hiremath
Malin Mendel Westberg
Malini Roy
Manpreet Singh 
Maria del Rio Sanin
Maria Emille Burge
Meenal Jain
Megha Bhagat
Mishaal Shetty
Monica Nanjunda
Naksha Erappa
Nandini Nagarajan
Neeha Mujeeb
Nia Chari
Nirbheek Chauhan
Ojasvi Singh
Palak Khandelwal
Parul Khanna
Pragati KB
Pushpa Achanta
Dr. Preeti Chawla
Preeti Govindraja
Priloza
Pooja Kumar
Radhika Sinha 
Rajalakshmi Rajagopal
Rashi Sinha
Rishita Nandagiri 
Ritu Ganguli 
Rupali Arora 
Saptarshi Chakraborty
Satya Gummuluri 
Satyashree Sethia
Sayali Patwardhan
Seema Nair
Shailaja
Shilpa Goyal
Shreyansh
Shruti Chandrashekharan
Shristi Banerjee
Silvana Rigobon
Sufiya Jay
Suhas Gokul
Sunayana Roy
Sukriti Suryavanshi
Supriya
Suruchi Sharma
Swati Khaitan
Tashu Puri 
Teresa Gomes   
Tharunya Balan
Viji Chari
Vira Mistry 
Wolfram Thurm
Yamini Deen
Yasmeen Taj S
(incase we missed you, please report)

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