quilting freedom: gee's bend

This collection explores quilting as a form of nonviolence, care, and cultural preservation through the work of the women of Gee’s Bend and Faith Ringgold. In my essay, I examine how quilting can function as resistance not through confrontation, but through acts of making, storytelling, reuse, and sustaining Black life. The quilts of Gee’s Bend emerged from histories of slavery, segregation, poverty, and survival, transforming scraps of fabric into objects of warmth, memory, and community care.