The Womanifesto collective came together in Bangkok in the late 1990s to fulfill the need for an inclusive, creative and open-ended art platform for artists from Southeast Asia. It was primarily set up as an independent project run by women, and is now a globally recognized entity,involving multiple art forms and artists from all over the world. One of the coordinators,VARSHA NAIR,shares her experience of this movement and its evolution with VANESSA PATEL