Cunt Quilt - A Collaboration Project at the 2019 Women's March
At the 2019 Women’s March, Tomorrow Girls Troop collaborated with Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, an artist based in Florida.
In the 2016 US presidential election, Hillary Clinton gained 3 million more votes than Donald Trump. Despite those 3 million votes, Trump was elected as a result of a 200-year-old voting system which favors votes from conservative areas.
Coralina explains the meaning behind the name “Cunt Quilt”:
“Art isn’t just in the service of pleasure, but it’s a public service. Since this country refuses to elect a woman president, I’m conducting a national underwear audit to collect worn out women’s underwear to sew into Cunt Quilts.”
“I want to air our nation’s dirty laundry and get to the bottom-line question.”
In many different regions, Coralina gathered women who want to learn more and invited experts on issues regarding women in each area. She created a project where women, after a conversation with the experts, participate in stitching up used underwear to make protest flags and join marches.
This project has continued since the first Women’s March in 2017, and will continue until a woman is finally elected president.
In 2019, in collaboration with Tomorrow Girls Troop, Coralina held a meeting to study human trafficking and to create quilts in Los Angeles. After hearing a speech from Cherise of Journey Out, an organization that supports human trafficking survivors in LA, everyone contributed ideas and sewed together women’s underwear to make quilts based on human trafficking issues.
At the Women’s March, they held all of the quilts they had made and marched through the streets of LA.
This project was featured in The Times of Israel.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/smaller-but-still-angry-womens-marches-draw-thousands-across-us/
Some resources used at the meetings:
