Women’s March Series

Don’t Mourn, Organize. (Found Women's March Posters), 2018

Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Don’t Mourn, Organize weaving is a collection of found protest posters from the January 20, 2018 Women’s March on NYC. The collected posters have been documented, shredded, and reassembled and literally woven back together again.

It is at once a way to bring many voices together into one, as well as a documentation of the movement. Some words can be read, like “Don’t Mourn, Organize.” Others, however, become part of the larger weaving. Some of the phrases in this weaving include: "The Future is Feminist," "Her Story is More Important than History," and, the one that I find still resonates and acts as a precursor to the absolute explosion of the #MeToo movement: "I Can't Keep Quiet."

Using an artform that has historically belonged to women, weaving seems a fitting artform to bring these voices together, document a movement, and let these posters circulate and continue their message for change.