Together We Rise.
The Patchwork Healing Blanket: Piece-by-Piece and Country-by-Country is an international textile art project that unites generations of women in a global movement against gender-based violence and the destruction of Mother Earth. In 2019 a group of women artists from Oaxaca and Mexico City, led by Founder/Director Marietta Bernstorff, started working together to develop the Patchwork Healing Blanket/La Manta de Curacíon in response to an outrageous increase in the murder of women in Mexico that year. The artists began to invite women from all over Mexico and the world to participate in making a patchwork cloth piece that speaks out against the violent crimes we are all witnessing through news outlets and social media.
I titled my contribution Together We Rise.
Depicting women of all ages, skin tones, religions, sizes and abilities lifting each other upwards as if in a wave this block is meant to inspire a feeling of unity between women.
The only way to fight oppression is to unite and work together. That is what projects like this one inspire, and that is how we will dismantle the systems that continue to discriminate and perpetuate violence against women around the world.
