Our Bodies, Our Quilt for World Sexual Health Day
When:
Saturday, August 29, 202610:00am - 1:30pm ET
Where:
Easthampton Public Library Annex, 52 Main Street, Easthampton, MA 01027
Co-hosted with
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World Sexual Health Day is the perfect time to reflect on our bodies and our relationship with them. And quilting is a time-honored way of making thoughts and feelings tangible. At this event, co-hosted by Our Bodies Ourselves and UN|HUSHED, we will launch the next theme of Our Bodies, Our Quilt: Every Body and make quilt squares that express the complex experience of living in a body!
Reflection prompts:
- What is it like living in your body?
- How does your body move through the world?
- What would it look like for every body to have sexual health, rights, justice, and pleasure?
As the World Association for Sexual Health writes,
Every person — for as long as they are alive — has a body, and ...what determines whether that body experiences sexual health, rights, justice, and pleasure is rarely the body itself.” It is the world that body moves through. The conditions that shape a person's sexual health are political, structural, economic, and social. They are written into policies and embedded in institutions. They show up in who gets believed in a clinical setting, whose pain is taken seriously, whose relationships are recognized, whose pleasure is considered legitimate, and whose body is treated with dignity. They are determined by power — and power is not distributed equally. The space between 'Every' and 'Body' is intentional. It asks us to hold both words in mind at once: every person, and the body they inhabit. Because sexual health is always lived in a body — and not all bodies move through the world on equal terms.”
We will provide materials at the event to make quilt squares responding to the theme. Your square can reflect a personal experience, give voice to feelings and values, or issue a call to action. Of course, we welcome designs that note the place that Our Bodies Ourselves may have played in your journey.
How to Make a Quilt Square
Click on the link to download instructions on how to create and submit your quilt square.
📨Mail-in submissions are due: September 4th, World Sexual Health Day
