Patchwork Feminism: A Community Quilt Project

Be part of the launch of a new project from the Feminist Resource Center - Patchwork Feminism: A Community Quilt Project! Learn to sew! Practice embroidery! Drink tea with friends! Contribute to a living archive!

Like the pieces of a quilt, our experiences, realities, oppressions, and ultimate liberation are bound together. This community quilt project aims to act as a process-based material archive of the ways in which community members of Middlebury College interact with feminist issues. The workshops to create this mosaic of feminist experience are grounded in personal exploration across a variety of themes (race, sexuality, reproductive landscape, collective care, building futures, gendered violence, borders, surveillance, climate and the body, anti-war action, etc.), followed by the act of creating in community. 

What does this look like in practice? We will gather in Chellis House to drink tea, eat snacks, and explore prompts related to some of the themes mentioned above. Then, we will design and create quilt squares to represent our responses and experiences. This is a great opportunity to get crafty and learn some new sewing skills! These squares will be bound together to create a quilt representing our commitment to each other and a better world. 

Register here!