stitching the stories
of those who have died and suffered in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson June 24, 2022.
I am a full-time feminist and lifelong maker. Each of these stitched pages represents the story of at least one person who has suffered or died because of abortion bans. All the stories deserve to be more widely known.
Someday, when women+ regain the right to abortion, we must remember those who paid the price for this shameful time in our history.
Until then, I will continue to stitch their stories.
“We hear very little about what happens to the women lost and maimed because of the ever-tightening forest of laws around reproductive rights. Now Living and Dying Under Dobbs preserves their stories. To see these works of art and to read the stories is to understand how women’s lives are being thrown into the balance every day by laws that make a doctor or a hospital too frightened to save them. It is one of the great unwritten and unseen modern-day tragedies, but this project gives it a powerful voice through the medium of textiles. Living and Dying Under Dobbs is timely and eloquent.”
—Jo Andrews, creator and host of the podcast Haptic & Hue: Tales of Textiles
“This deeply moving project draws you into the individual human stories in a way that feels real but not overwhelmingly, hopelessly dark. Art as activism is powerful because of its beauty in the face of ugliness, its humanity in the face of monstrous evil and because it is an act of creation in the face of destruction.”
—-Miranda Ferriss Jones, theatre songwriter, storyteller, and activist
