Half the Sky: Building Feminist Solidarity

What does feminist solidarity look and feel like to you? Can you picture it in images and words?

Discussions around resistance and solidarity can sometimes become abstract, making it easy to lose sight of the material action, principles, and language that bring people together in movement. Looking at the history of the women’s movement and the posters it produced offers insight into how mobilisation happened—what strategies were used, what causes framed these conversations in different parts of the country, and how women built networks of protest and  support.

Join us for a walkthrough of Half the Sky: Building Feminist Solidarity a digital story in the Sasken Multimedia Gallery with curators Archisha Rai and Laxmi Murthy.  This edition explores through posters the many ways women have cultivated communities grounded in care, empathy, and resistance . The posters highlight a call for women’s participation in community activities, unionising, and inclusion and emphasise the importance of solidarity and friendship among women across cultures, caste, and class differences.

This is the second digital story from the series Frames of Struggle: Tracing a Movement, a collaboration between the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) and Zubaan that activates the Poster Women archive.

Image Courtesy: Poster Women archive, Zubaan