We've just extended our deadline for decorated patches for the Trans Unity Quilt - can you help spread the word, so that everyone who's received a patch has a chance to get in back to us? Thank you!
Thank you so much, everyone - we can't tell you what all of your contributions mean. Again - we're here to help, if we can. Just let us know.
Paint a meaningful symbol - a spiral, a star, something that represents your beliefs - and use all the colours that feel meaningful and beautiful to you
Leave to dry before you pack it up and return it! Overnight is ideal
Paint a quick impression of where in nature you feel at peace - a river? The sea at sunset? Applying paint with a sponge is great for nature textures
Draw an outline of a shape and paint it in with the colours of the trans flag, or a rainbow, or your favourite pride flag colours
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Additional equipment: Paint brush(es), potentially a pencil, potentially a sponge
Paint your patch like a protest banner with a simple slogan
Paint your patch with the words of a short motto
Paint an abstract representation of your gender - colours, shapes, swirls
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Simplest painting prompt:
Mix up colours that best express you, and then use your own body to paint the patch: handprints, finger swirls, finger flicks and spatters - maybe even footprints. Make a painted statement of your existence
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If you have a bit more time, here are some 1 hour painting prompts!
Equipment needed: non-toxic paint (we recommend acrylic)
Decorating technique: painting directly onto the patch (we recommend putting down some sheeting/newspaper beneath the patch)
Finally:
A collection of words - as many as you want - that describe all the different parts of who you are
Your favourite recipe and who you’d like to share it with
Something you wish everyone could understand about trans people
A memory from your life you’d like to share
A slogan you could march beneath
A message for a trans researcher 50 years in the future
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A list of trans people throughout history (including the present day) that the world should know about
A quote from a movie, book, tv show or video game that’s important to you
A question that you’d like to ask other trans people
A question that you’d like to ask the whole world
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15minute Prompts:
Equipment needed: a pen/pens (Sharpies or fabric markers are ideal)
Decorating technique: writing directly onto the patch
Write down any of the below:
A song lyric that means something to you
A quote from a trans person who inspires you
A wish for the future
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If you have an undecorated patch and are feeling stuck with how to decorate it, you can always get in touch to discuss ideas - or maybe these prompts will be helpful?
We'll sort out and pay for postage - again, just email us at transunityquilt@goodlawproject.org
We sent an email around today, but could you help us share this message, just in case our emails got caught in spam filters?
...before we drive all the patches halfway across the country to our wonderful fabricators. We would absolutely love to get every single patch back, and if we can support you to do that then please just let us know at transunityquilt@goodlawproject.org
We don't want 'perfect' - just real
Patchmakers! Do you still have your undecorated or decorated patch waiting to send back to us? This is your urgent reminder, and also a message to say that we're here to help in any way we can.
We have an absolute deadline of May 4th for patches to be sent back, so we can archive and photograph...
We've managed to squeeze in a few more free places for our Birmingham workshop this Friday evening! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trans-unit... Please help us spread the word - community crafting with good people
UK trans people and friends - last few spaces left for our free workshop in Birmingham on Friday evening - please share! Thank you all - these workspaces are a bright spark in a dark world
This Friday we'll be holding a free workshop in Birmingham, thanks to the kindness of Fatt Projects in sharing their space. Last few places left, so grab one if you want to come!
www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-unit...
A view through a Liverpool cafe window - in the window hangs a trans flag and a placard reading 'God is Trans' - in the sky is an enormous rainbow.
Ran a @transunityquilt.bsky.social workshop in Liverpool this evening and a rainbow appeared at exactly the right place, at exactly the right time.
Fuck calling the UK 'TERF Island.' We're stronger, braver, and better - and we are going to win.
Wednesday we're in Bristol! Come join us for a free, accessible patch decorating workshop! All trans people and friends welcome www.outsavvy.com/event/34779/...
A quilt patch on white cloth. It has a crocheted border in the colours of the trans pride flag. Within the square the border creates, many quotes from disabled trans activists and academics are written in different colours so that the text forms the disability pride flag.
I am so, so proud of this. my body is killing me now but here is the best expression of love and gratitude I could muster for my trans disabled friends and elders: the disability flag made of quotes. so excited to send this off to @transunityquilt.bsky.social - last minute but we got there!
If you're looking for the perfect thing to listen to while decorating your patch then Ologies has you covered. Textile art is community-building, radical praxis - always has been.
Nearly sold out, but sharing again in case you can make it to Liverpool on Monday 13th and want to grab the last space(s)!
The news today continues abhorrent, but so too do these beautiful words of wisdom and acts of beauty and care. Thank you so much to everyone giving such gifts to us all. It really matters.
LOVE THIS - thank you!
Trans on Trains! A classic!
We have finished our patch and are sending it off to @transunityquilt.bsky.social
Thank you so much! This is just beautiful
None of us chooses the circumstances of our entry into this world. The time, the location, who are parents are. The ways in which genetics and chance interact. We can no more change these, than we can change who we are. Being trans is as much a part of the natural variation of being human as having red hair, or freckles. Trans people are sisters, brothers, mums, dads, coworkers, friends, lovers. We are part of humanity's glorious variety. We are part of life.
My @transunityquilt.bsky.social patch is on its way back to the quilt HQ.
Words matter. Language is routinely used to harm trans people, so I thought I'd use it in a positive way, instead (also, I can't draw or paint or do any of that other creative stuff 😂).
Text in the ALT.
THANK YOU! What a stunning quilt