Stitching the Future: Weaving and Quilting and Embroidery for Collective Survival

The CISSC 2025-2026 Working Group Confronting Emergent Dystopia is excited to invite you to our next workshop, Stitching the Future: Weaving & Quilting & Embroidery for Collective Survival.

On November 19, from 4-6 p.m., please join us in the JOYLab (FG 5.255) for a community-centred workshop where participants create hand-stitched patches and embroidery that imagine futures beyond extraction, domination, and erasure.

Drawing from traditions of craft as resistance — such as quilting, visible mending, and protest textiles — this space will invite story-sharing and resistance through needle and thread. Influenced by Indigenous resurgence, Black feminist futurism, and diasporic textile traditions, participants will stitch symbols, phrases, and images that reflect survival strategies, ancestral knowledge, and speculative futures.

The workshop will be guided by a series of panelists who explore the question: What futures are we stitching toward?