Hannah Brancato (Baltimore, MD) and Lorena Kourousias (NYC) of The Monument Quilt Project join us to talk about creating public rituals of healing, undoing white supremacy culture, and how they transformed what started as an art project into a movement.The Monument Quilt, a project of Baltimore and Mexico City-based FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, is a collection of more than 3,000 stories by survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence and our allies, written, painted, and stitched onto red fabric. These stories literally blanket highly public, outdoor places to create and demand space to heal, and resist a singular narrative about sexual violence. The culminating display was May 31 – June 2, 2019, on the National Mall in Washington, DC. This was the only time that the quilt was displayed in its entirety.The Monument Quilt was launched in 2013, and over six years FORCE collected nearly 3,000 squares of the quilt with messages of affirmation and stories from survivors. We partnered with over 100 organizations across the US and in Mexico, to organize 50 Quilt displays in 33 different cities. Cities include (in order from most recent): Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; Madison, NJ; Houston, TX; Athens, OH; Fort Belvoir, VA; Towson, MD; Mexico City, Mexico; San Francisco, CA; El Paso, TX; Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; Santa Barbara, CA; Valley Center, CA; Tempe, AZ; Tulsa, OK; Fort Hood, TX; Annapolis, MD; Fort Meade, MD; Washington, DC; Nashville, TN; Jacksonville, FL; Oklahoma City, OK; Middleton, CT; Queens, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; Durham, NC; Oshkosh, WI; Chicago, IL; White River, SD; Quapaw, OK; Des Moines, IA; Baton Rouge, LA; Birmingham, AL; Arden, NC.LinksThe Monument Quilt Project: https://themonumentquilt.org/FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture: https://upsettingrapeculture.com/FORCE on Instagram @upsettingrapecultureHannah Brancato: https://www.hannahbrancato.com/ @Hannah.brancatoMixteca: https://www.mixteca.org/The Monument Quilt Project Box Set: https://booklyn.org/catalog/monument-quilt-project/How to Self Care (zine): https://booklyn.org/catalog/force-how-to-self-care/Thrive Zine: https://booklyn.org/catalog/force-thrive-zine/Thrive Thrive Thrive (zine): https://booklyn.org/catalog/force-thrive-thrive-thrive/***Booklyn linksWebsite: https://booklyn.org/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/booklynart/

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