Women Walk at Midnight is a practice of walking at night, and past midnight, around different areas and neighborhoods of a city. This is a non-funded, volunteer-based practice initiated by theater artist Mallika Taneja in late 2016, in New Delhi, India. We seek no permissions and no formal securities to walk on the street at night. We walk because the streets and the night belong to us as much as to any other citizen. We take on what the night brings with it and we face it together.

For the past seven years, we have gone from a walk every few months to one walk every month in a different part of the city. The practice has expanded and has tried to stretch its definition of midnight, walking, as well as what constitutes «women». Women have walked in several cities over the years – Bangalore, Guwahati, Rishikesh, to name a few in India, and São Paulo and Brussels overseas. Over the past year, Cape Town in South Africa has developed its own chapter of Women Walk at Midnight.

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