2024/10/01 by Sarah-Joy Ford · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Historical Gender and Feminism Studies #Latin American and Latino Studies #Race, History, and American Society
paper · doi:10.1080/14759756.2024.2366039
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This practice-based paper presents The Lesbian Quilt Manifesto. This document frames, and states the aims of my practice-led research method. It is a polemical proposal for the Quilt as an effective methodology for re-visioning lesbian archive materials. The manifesto is part of a lineage of queer manifestos that demand and declare, including the Lesbian Avengers, ACT Up, Zoe Leonard and Paul B. Preciado. The Lesbian Quilt Manifesto answers some important questions like: What is a quilt?What is a lesbian?Why would you make a lesbian quilt?The manifesto situates the research method within the histories of women’s marginalized creative production, domestic labor and communication through craft. It unsettles cozy, complacent imaginings of the quilt as a passive historical object, and re-positions the quilt as a dangerous object.