Our Monument
Our Monument is a creative healing collective founded by activist and public artist Ann Lewis. The overarching project is committed to actualizing a world bereft of sexual and gender-based violence by creating inspiring public spaces for healing, education, and social innovation through creative collaboration with survivors.
This initiative also endeavors to revolutionize who we honor with the creation of monumental public works. Through non-violent sustainable means of production, digital and physical engagement, and significant community organizing we are exploring temporal impact, ethos over ego, and the power of survivor-led collaboration. Founded on intersectional feminist ideologies we are always evolving, listening, and open to feedback.
“The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice community. A radical kinship, an interdependent sociality, a politics of care.”
— Johanna Hedva, Sick Woman Theory