Stitching Solidarity

Embroidery is often seen as “soft” or apolitical. However, it is a feminist practice that was used throughout the world to protest, weave nets of solidarity and show that care work and collective creativity are deeply political. Krintar, Dunia and Paturi of FemLink speak with radiomaker Andreea Zelinka about their queer feminist migrant collective and the spaces they create in order to imagine caring futures together through creativity and art.

FemLink is creating these spaces also at Amerlinghaus, a grassroots space which is crucial for political, cultural and community organizing in Vienna and now threatened in its existence due to cuts of cultural and social funding by the city officials of Vienna. In order to resist to the city’s anti-social politics, FemLink invites to a 24-hour collective embroidery action in solidarity with Amerlingshaus on 24-25^th of January.

In this episode we will talk about embroidery as a feminist practice, the queer feminist and migrant collective FemLink, about austerity politics in Vienna as part of a global trend, that threatens communities, and especially women and queers everywhere, and how one can be part of the 24-hour-embroidery-action at Amerlinghaus.

More about the 24h-embroidery-action:

https://www.fem-link.org/blog-1-copy-1-2/24-hours-of-embroidery-with-femlink-in-solidarity-with-amerlinghaus

Interviewees: Krintar, Dunia and Paturi of FemLink, https://www.fem-link.org/

Music:

missratene Töchter – Bäume

Shungudzo – It’s a good day (to fight the system)

Patti Smith – People have the Power

Peter Tosh – Get up, stand up

Language: English

Host and Producer: Andreea Zelinka

Foto credit: FemLink