BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Exhibit: Monument Quilt @ National Mall -- Quilt Itself

DC -- Exhibit: Monument Quilt @ National Mall -- Quilt Itself:

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Description of Pictures: The Monument Quilt, a project of Baltimore based FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, is a collection of over 3,000 stories by survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence and our allies, written, painted, and stitched onto red fabric. Our stories literally blanket highly public, outdoor places to create and demand space to heal, and resist a singular narrative about sexual violence. The culminating display is coming up May 31 – June 2, 2019, on the National Mall in Washington, DC. This will be the only time that the quilt will be viewed in its entirety.

The project has received national coverage through MSNBC and Refinery 29, including of our art actions at Standing Rock and in solidarity with Marissa Alexander. We continue to receive local coverage during Monument Quilt workshops and events organized by our partners, such as this article in the Alton Telegraph. Video from our 2014 tour can be seen here, and footage from our hometown, Baltimore, is here.

Members of the staff collective shape the vision of the Quilt, and it is guided by our Leadership Team. The staff collective currently includes Charnell Covert, E Cadoux, Mora Fernández, Hannah Brancato, and Shanti Flagg. Former staff collective members include Saida Agostini, Robin Marquis and Rebecca Nagle. The Monument Quilt was co-founded by Hannah Brancato and Rebecca Nagle in 2013.

The Monument Quilt was launched in 2013, and over the past five years FORCE has collected nearly 3,000 squares of the quilt with messages of affirmation and stories from survivors. We’ve partnered with over 100 organizations across the US and in Mexico, to organize 49 Quilt displays in 33 different cities. Cities include, in order from most recent: Baltimore, MD; Madison, NJ; Houston, TX; Athens, OH; Fort Belvoir, VA; Towson, MD; Mexico City, Mexico; San Francisco, CA; El Paso, TX; Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; Santa Barbara, CA; Valley Center, CA; Tempe, AZ; Tulsa, OK; Fort Hood, TX; Annapolis, MD; Fort Meade, MD; Washington, DC; Nashville, TN; Jacksonville, FL; Oklahoma City, OK; Middleton, CT; Queens, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; Durham, NC; Oshkosh, WI; Chicago, IL; White River, SD; Quapaw, OK; Des Moines, IA; Baton Rouge, LA; Birmingham, AL; Arden, NC.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MONQ_190602_008.JPG: The Monument Quilt TheMonumentQuilt.org Organized by FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, the Monument Quilt is an on-going collection of stories from survivors of rape and abuse. Written, stitched, and painted onto red fabric, our stories are displayed in city and town centers to create and demand public space to heal. The quilt resists the popular and narrow narrative of how sexual violence occurs by telling many stories, not one. The quilt builds a new culture where survivors are publicly supported, rather than publicly shamed.
2. MONQ_190602_013.JPG: There is hope. There is healing.
3. MONQ_190602_014.JPG: Your voice matters.
4. MONQ_190602_032.JPG: Who do you think you are? What happened does not define me. I don't owe you shit. My body, my choice. Un breakable
5. MONQ_190602_052.JPG: I can't believe we still have to say this
6. MONQ_190602_058.JPG: It's OK not to be OK
7. MONQ_190602_063.JPG: Find the strength inside of you (trust me, it's there)
8. MONQ_190602_065.JPG: I can still feel his presence but I also can still feel my heart beating and it's willing to fight -- for justice, for safety, and for everyone to feel and be told their bodies are their own...
9. MONQ_190602_070.JPG: I am more than just an object
10. MONQ_190602_094.JPG: I am not what's broken
11. MONQ_190602_104.JPG: F--- this shit
12. MONQ_190602_108.JPG: Do not touch
13. MONQ_190602_109.JPG: I hide my scars behind my eyes
14. MONQ_190602_114.JPG: Believe Queer Victims and Survivors
15. MONQ_190602_120.JPG: We are worthy of belief force we believe Anita Hill we believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Honor Survivors Now
16. MONQ_190602_130.JPG: My "no no" square 2017 Just because you have a badge & gun doesn't mean yes!
17. MONQ_190602_133.JPG: It's not always dark!
18. MONQ_190602_136.JPG: I said no Get off
19. MONQ_190602_139.JPG: God never waste the hurt
20. MONQ_190602_144.JPG: You are not tainted. You are amazing. I promise
21. MONQ_190602_147.JPG: People will belive [sic] you.
22. MONQ_190602_149.JPG: I'm in the same situation as you are... and together we'll make it through and rise
23. MONQ_190602_173.JPG: Pussy power
24. MONQ_190602_180.JPG: She saved me... My sister sharing her story saved me from our brother. I had a 7 year old Wonder Woman
25. MONQ_190602_189.JPG: For the comfort women
26. MONQ_190602_199.JPG: I'm learning how to ask for help
27. MONQ_190602_202.JPG: I know you had to leave b/c of them, but we will never leave you
28. MONQ_190602_210.JPG: I have the power! But I still always ask! -- The Manlifs man
29. MONQ_190602_214.JPG: "These boys must realise [sic], no means NO. Could be someone who speaks to him, friend, girlfriend, sexworker, or even your wife. "NO" means "NO". And when someone says no, you STOP! -- Movie
30. MONQ_190602_218.JPG: Sexual abuse is anyone!! Children Women Men
31. MONQ_190602_234.JPG: Stay strong together
32. MONQ_190602_248.JPG: Keeping rape a secret won't stop it's [sic] presence. Don't wait to speak up. You could save someone.
33. MONQ_190602_281.JPG: Suppress the virus, not the person
34. MONQ_190602_284.JPG: My dress doesn't mean yes.
35. MONQ_190602_285.JPG: Know your status safe = sexy
36. MONQ_190602_297.JPG: My gender My body
37. MONQ_190602_302.JPG: It wasn't f---ing holy So don't put my f---ing name...
38. MONQ_190602_320.JPG: The girl he touched is not here I carry her heart & her
39. MONQ_190602_329.JPG: We walk together
40. MONQ_190602_339.JPG: No one gets to hurt you to make themselves feel better
41. MONQ_190602_384.JPG: He rape me in my own house. He is my neighbor
42. MONQ_190602_386.JPG: By day he was my father
43. MONQ_190602_399.JPG: Thought I was safe with you. Nope.
44. MONQ_190602_402.JPG: "You're going to ruin his life." -- A "friend's" response to my decision to report my rape This is rape culture
45. MONQ_190602_413.JPG: In honor of our daughter who is the bravest woman we know
46. MONQ_190602_414.JPG: It was girls' night. At a bar in Boystown It stopped being ok... he never asked My best friends locked eyes w/me They didn't see the hurt, the cry for help Instead... They laughed
47. MONQ_190602_447.JPG: Preying on indigenous people is not a right
48. MONQ_190602_452.JPG: There is hope
49. MONQ_190602_458.JPG: Cherokee nation, one fire victims task force
50. MONQ_190602_461.JPG: Respect tribal courts not Dollar General
51. MONQ_190602_464.JPG: Uphold tribal sovereignty
52. MONQ_190602_466.JPG: We take our power back
53. MONQ_190602_477.JPG: Native women murdered and missing
54. MONQ_190602_535.JPG: Educate our boys before they become men
55. MONQ_190602_593.JPG: What happened is tragic But you are not a tragedy
56. MONQ_190602_597.JPG: Strong.
57. MONQ_190602_600.JPG: When I know a man is visiting I often hide my knives
58. MONQ_190602_615.JPG: They told me it was just initiation. They told me to just keep drinking. They told me to just follow them and then they locked the door. No one told them to stop.
59. MONQ_190602_623.JPG: Break the silence, listen when she speaks
60. MONQ_190602_624.JPG: F--- the patriarchy
61. MONQ_190602_638.JPG: Consent is everything
62. MONQ_190602_639.JPG: No means f---ing no
63. MONQ_190602_672.JPG: F--- you. I won't do what you tell me mother f---er.
64. MONQ_190602_683.JPG: Disrupt toxic masculinity
65. MONQ_190602_708.JPG: We know why predators are believed Mi$ogyny
66. MONQ_190602_755.JPG: They're still my favorite pair of jeans. (You don't get to f---ing take that.)
67. MONQ_190602_758.JPG: In 2 days I will finally be divorced from my abuser!
68. MONQ_190602_831.JPG: I was 9. You? 16 I did not even know the words to explain what you did.
69. MONQ_190602_843.JPG: All I remember is the moon. It was full. And its light fills me with HOPE
70. MONQ_190602_864.JPG: It's OK to hate dick
71. MONQ_190602_897.JPG: Communities that shame survivors support rapists.
72. MONQ_190602_899.JPG: You are not alone.
73. MONQ_190602_904.JPG: Rape can end.
74. MONQ_190602_906.JPG: You did not deserve it.
75. MONQ_190602_908.JPG: Rape is not an accident.
76. MONQ_190602_911.JPG: Rape thrives in oppressive systems.
77. MONQ_190602_913.JPG: Your voice matters.
78. MONQ_190602_915.JPG: We believe you.
79. MONQ_190602_917.JPG: Rape is used to control communities of color.
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