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Quilting the Progression of Canadian Queer Rights
The Project ... In a nutshell
During 2025, I will travel Canada interviewing Queer elders, to record their stories, while we are still alive! Our stories matter and should live on to reflect the past, enrich the present and guide the future.
I will take the information from these interviews and present it in twelve quilts, with each quilt based on a Supreme Court decision or a legislative act of Parliament that advanced Queer rights in Canada.
A special emphasis will be placed on the LGBT Purge, the decades from the 1950s through 1990s when the Canadian Government actively sought out ‘homosexuals’, and removed them from the Civil Service, the military and the RCMP. This is a rarely talked about, but critical part of Canadian history; a part that hindered the development of Queer rights nation-wide for decades, while ruining the lives of so many Canadians!
Along with the quilts and exhibit of the quilts at the end of the project, there will also be two films created and edited so that portions can be included IN the quilts, with other parts accompanying the quilts as part of the exhibit.
During the phase when I am travelling Canada to interview the elders, I will visit up to 20 Quilt Guild or Shops and for each, I will present a BackPacK Show highlighting my quiltivism, and a workshop based on Canadian Quilters Association's True Colours Quilt Along.
Fabric for these workshops has been generously donated by Northcott Fabric, Canada.
My travel schedule for the next six months in listed under the 'Calendar' tab
