Black Feminist Breathing at the Monument Quilt Women of Color Tent: Chicago

As part of the Women of Color Tent Programming at the Monument Quilt project to create public space for healing by and for survivors of sexual violence  the organizers of the Women of Color Tent will be offering Black Feminist Breathing meditations and activities designed by Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs based on the transformative work of

Ida B. Wells 

Essex Hemphill

and

June Jordan

The Women of Color is a trans-inclusive space for all women of color survivors to build community.  For more details see the link below!

More about the monument quilt project:   https://themonumentquilt.org/about/

The Monument Quilt: a public healing space by and for survivors of rape and abuse.

The Monument Quilt is a crowd-sourced collection of thousands of stories from survivors of rape and abuse. By stitching our stories together, we are creating and demanding public space to heal. The Monument Quilt is a platform to not only tell our stories, but work together to forever change how Americans respond to rape. We are creating a new culture where survivors are publicly supported, rather than publicly shamed.

Sections of the quilt will be witnessed across the United States through a tour, quilt making workshops, and a historic display in our nation’s capitol. Blanketing over one mile of the National Mall, thousands of fabric squares will be stitched together to spell “NOT ALONE”. The Monument Quilt gives churches, schools, towns and our country clear and accessible steps to support survivors of rape and abuse when, often, people don’t know where to begin. Through public recognition, the quilt reconnects survivors to their community.