Social Fabric Volume 2: Gender and Sexuality

Social Fabric Volume 2: Gender and Sexuality

Social Fabric Vol. 2: Gender and Sexuality invited contributors to tell the stories of textile objects important to them as they relate to gender and/or sexuality, asking

• How do textiles affirm, challenge, or complicate cultural beliefs about what it means to be a woman or a man? Nonbinary?
• Knowing that, in many cultures, textile work is designated as “women’s work,” who makes our beloved textile objects? What do their creation stories tell us about gender and work?
• What have do the tactile sensations of textiles teach us about our sexuality? 
• What do textiles project to the world about our gender or sexuality, intentionally or unintentionally?
• What do textiles you about masculinity or femininity?

The contributors represent people of ALL gender and sexual identities, and people within and beyond the boarders of the USA. The contributions (comprising stories, visual art, poems, and reflections) weave together in this volume in order to delight and provoke, make revelations and ask new questions about who we are in our own bodies and in relationship with one another.