beautiful by @RebeccaSolnit: “The fabric of this country is forever being torn apart by hate and exclusion; it is forever being stitched into new patterns, new connections, new relationships … a quilter's art of bringing the fragments together into a whole.”

thinking of @francesbell, the creators of the #FemEdTechQuilt and the #AIDSQuilt, Rosa Parks, and all who carefully stitch together resistance & hope in so many ways.

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/solidarity-stitches-us-together-today-world-aids-day-is-also-the-70th-anniversary-of-rosa-parks-historic-protest/

#PulseMemorial #AIDSquilt #LGBTQrights
"When will our breaking point come in this era of Trump madness? Because if we allow the Pulse rainbow to disappear, without protest, we risk allowing ourselves to disappear too." 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Protestors re-colour Pulse Nightclub memorial crosswalk: 'We will NOT be erased'

"Protestors including a state senator have fought back against the removal of the Pulse Nightclub memorial crosswalk by re-colouring it,"
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/22/pulse-crosswalk-nightclub-memorial/

#PulseMemorial #AIDSquilt #LGBTQrights
"When will our breaking point come in this era of Trump madness? Because if we allow the Pulse rainbow to disappear, without protest, we risk allowing ourselves to disappear too." 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

After erasing a memorial to the Pulse shooting victims, will the GOP try to burn the AIDS Quilt next?

"Opinion: For the evangelical right that dominates Republican politics, their dream is for LGBTQ+ people to disappear, writes John Casey."
https://www.advocate.com/voices/pulse-orlando-republicans-aids-quilt

I've boosted a few posts about the AIDS quilt exhibit in London, but haven't linked to anything under the #QuiltingNews hashtag. Here's a couple of recent articles - Huck has better pictures of the quilted panels, but the BBC has personal stories about some of the people memorialized in the project

https://www.huckmag.com/article/largest-ever-display-of-uk-aids-memorial-quilt-opens-at-tate-modern

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmjrm0m20mo

#Quilting #AIDSQuilt

Just learned there’s a community memorial quilt project dedicated to *all* those lost during the Irish/British Conflict (as they just call it the conflict in the article from Belfast, I’m not sure I have the name right. But maybe that’s the point - it’s all conflict)

The #AIDSQuilt has inspired so many memorial quilt projects. I’ve never really thought about the ongoing, outsized impact Cleve Jones has had on this art form

https://belfastmedia.com/eleventh-panel-of-rfj-remembering-quilt-is-launched

#Quilting #QuiltingNews

"Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records -
Archive Now Reunited Online with Digitized Panels of AIDS Memorial Quilt"

https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-launches-digitized-collection-of-national-aids-memorial-quilt-records/s/c1e8d239-f0e9-486f-9c12-884a4eb9a115

#LibraryOfCongress #AIDSQuilt #DigitalHumanities #Archives