Collective embroidery as a feminist practice in Abya Yala

Abstract

Through this research I sought to understand the ways in which collective embroidery constitutes a feminist practice and a way of inhabiting the body in embroiderers from the south west area of ​​Abya Yala. To incorporate embroidery in the creation of knowledge, I used the Embroidery Circle as a method, allowing me to unstitch structured and hegemonic methods, integrate geographies and affections, overflow research and embroider it with my own threads. The narratives created show the way in which embroidery is articulated as a communication mechanism, a way of inhabiting the body-territory and a practice of community production, elements that invite us to read this work with the body, sensations and sounds of memory: read it and feel it at the same time; opening questions that remind us that we are a social fabric and that favor the production of the common.