Amazing people digitized the world's largest community arts project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt! Searchable, or browse for beauty, memory, resonance. Zoom out for a pointilistic magnitude. (I chose a few squares, h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social.)
Silence = Death. #AIDSquilt #quilting
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The memory of our brothers and sisters can never be erased. They will always be in our hearts. #AIDSQuilt #WorldAIDSDay #loveislove #neverforgotten
Post a clock that speaks to you. I will never forget the impact aids has had in my life and how it shaped me as a human. Compassion always comes to mind. Image in the quilt is from the post office stamp from 1973- this stamp cost 8c
Post a block that speaks to you.
I will never forget the impact aids has had in my life and how it shaped me as a human. Compassion always comes to mind.
Image on the quilt is from the post office stamp from 1973- this stamp cost 8c
#AIDSQuilt
Post a block that speaks to you #AIDSQuilt
and everything I'd seen and read and heard during those preceding years all hit me at once, and I truly wept.
I went back every day that it was there, to sit and read the names and imagine what their people had been like.
#WorldAIDSDay
#AIDSQuilt
/fin.
An overhead view of the 1996 display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, DC. It is made up of around 40,000 panels, grouped in sections of 12x12 square feet. The sections are laid end to end in groups of 4, with 4 such groups side-by-side to make a row across the width of the Mall, with walking aisles in between. The rows go on and on, into the distance, until they cannot even be discerned as colorful patchwork rectangles, anymore, but just tiny fields of static. Along each side of the Mall is a stretch of park/trees about half a city block wide, with assorted Smithsonian museums outside of those. About a mile away, in the center, is the US Capitol building
An overhead view (via Google Earth) looking from the Washington Monument toward the Capitol, along the National Mall.
The last time the AIDS memorial quilt was displayed in its entirety was in 1996.
At the time, there were "only" around 40,000 panels (each containing anywhere from one to dozens of names), and it took up the entire National Mall.
#NamesProject
#AIDSQuilt
#WorldAIDSDay
On the eve of #WorldAIDSday2025 my blog on UK #AIDSquilt
Celebrating those who's lives were lost in an era of hostility & apathy towards #HIV & #AIDS, as we see again in #Trump's regime
#NeverForget
@nhivna.bsky.social @nat.org.uk @appghiv.bsky.social @unaids.org
davidsmemoirs.uk/2025/11/29/u...
On this day in queer history: Nov 24, 1985
At an AIDS vigil in San Francisco, Cleve Jones conceived the idea for the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Now 54 tons, it’s the world’s largest piece of community folk art.
#QueerHistory #AIDSQuilt #CleveJones
#PulseMemorial #AIDSquilt #LGBTQrights
"Protestors are fighting against the erasure of a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting victims by colouring the walkway back in." 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#PulseMemorial #AIDSquilt #LGBTQrights
"When will our breaking point come in this era of Trump madness? Because if we allow the Pulse rainbow to disappear, without protest, we risk allowing ourselves to disappear too." 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#PulseMemorial #AIDSquilt #LGBTQrights
"When will our breaking point come in this era of Trump madness? Because if we allow the Pulse rainbow to disappear, without protest, we risk allowing ourselves to disappear too." 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Check with your local historical society about documenting its history, especially now while HJIV/AIDS survivors can still tell their stories. #HIV/AIDS #survivors #AIDSadvocacy #AIDShistory #oralhistory #AIDSquilt
When I wrote this in 2018, I had no idea that I would keep writing about these three memorials for years.
#grief #9/11memorial #VietnamWall #AIDSQuilt
victorianoe.com/blog/remembe...
This is a quilt panel that caught my curiosity.
I really want to know about Mango Mary.
Who were they & how did they get that name!
#AIDSQuilt
I've boosted a few posts about the AIDS quilt exhibit in London, but haven't linked to anything under the #QuiltingNews hashtag. Here's a couple of recent articles - Huck has better pictures of the quilted panels, but the BBC has personal stories about some of the people memorialized in the […]
Aids-Quilt in Europa - In London wird die die berühmte Gedenksteppdecke für wenige Tage ausgestellt #AidsQuilt #HIVStigma #TateModern #Memorial #Gedenken
Remembering all of my warriors during this #PrideMonth when you’re out dancing this month, hold them in your heart and dance one for them. #UntilTheresACure #UntilItsOver #UEqualsU #HIV #AIDS #AIDSQuilt
www.news-leader.com/story/news/l...
Just learned there’s a community memorial quilt project dedicated to *all* those lost during the Irish/British Conflict (as they just call it the conflict in the article from Belfast, I’m not sure I have the name right. But maybe that’s the point - it’s all conflict)
The #AIDSQuilt has inspired […]
The AIDS Memorial Quilt fought government neglect during the epidemic 🧵 It honored lives lost & forced public recognition of an ignored LGBTQ+ tragedy. www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt-history #AIDSQuilt #ActUp 🧵11/15
The world's largest community #art project is the #AIDSQuilt. #Quilt #Textiles
I remember visiting the #AIDSquilt October 11, 1987. I think I saw it during another display because I didn't get to DC until Autumn of '88.
> Art installation on National Mall shares trans voices of hope, defiance www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
brought sections of the #AIDSQuilt to #LEX, & had 'em laid out in the grass outside the Singletary Center for the Arts, by Johnson-Romanowitz, & had a "reading of the names."
Edges of Ailey, Whitmey Museum, dancer above, painting middle ground, audience below
At City Center NY, an audience member with lovely hat is seen in front of a red curtain
A panel from the AIDS quilt honoring Alvin Aliey and others is framed by a pink curtain
audience in context: praise, memorial, hisses & shouts. At Edges of Ailey, dance is ethereal. Dance saturates the horizon.
During Revelations, we felt the dance as #AlvinAiley intended: “sometimes sorrowful, sometimes jubilant, but always hopeful”
#AIDSquilt aljean.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/a...
Yesterday, for the first time, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was on display on the White House's South Lawn.
Soak it in, folks...
Empathy and compassion are exiting the White House.
❤️🏳️🌈
#AIDSQuilt
#LGBQTAlly
#Compassion
#Empathy
#TheBidens
