Queer Quilting: An Exploration of Community, Resistance, and Care During a Pandemic: A Practice-Led Exploration

Queer Quilting: An exploration of community, resistance, and care during a pandemic seeks to understand the role of crafting and quilting in the queer community during times of fear and adversity. Through a literature review and a community-driven installation, this project establishes quilting as an act of resistance, community building, and healing, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. By examining the history of quilting in North America and its place within colonial and patriarchal systems, this project positions quilting as an object of resistance for queer communities. The final installation, created through quilting workshops with queer-identifying individuals, serves as a visual representation of the queer community's collective reaction to the pandemic and their connection to quilting as a community-building practice. Through an object-based analysis lens, this project aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the intersectional nature of quilting and its significance in queer communities as an act of resistance and care.