An Inch for Each of the Dead 🍉

An Inch for Each of the Dead at the Alchemy Experiment, Feb 2025. Photos from the opening reception on Thursday, a lovely evening of reflection and care. The quilt(s) will remain on display there until March 2, would highly recommend you stop by if you have the chance. Continued ineffable gratitude. From the little speech I gave to those in attendance: This quilt is for the people of Palestine, dead and alive, and we its makers will continue to use it as a tool to find justice and foster care for them. This quilt has brought together hundreds of people -- of outraged, broken hearted, tender, privileged and safe people like me around the world. The community of individuals that exists around this work is proof of the reason it matters to care so deeply about every single person -- that every nameless stranger deserves so much more than a single square inch. None of us have known if sewing is the right way to show that we refuse to be complicit in the genocide our governments are supporting, but sewing is what we've done while we've thought about that and mourned tens of thousands of Palestinian strangers and friends. It has very often felt silly to quilt in the face of genocide, but as so many of the makers have echoed, at least it's something. It's something very tangible to occupy our hands and space to try to help us make sense of something. It's something that is now so beautiful that it's hard to look at. It's something that has reminded us of reasons to resist and given us hope to do so. It is deeply powerful, overflowing with love, and I hope it makers you feel all that, too. #aninchforeachofthedead

AN INCH FOR EACH OF THE DEAD A piece of collaborative protest patchwork. A project to help us understand, communicate, mourn & speak out against the ongoing g3nocid3 in Palestine. I asked artists to make 10 x 10 blocks with 100 singular square inches. To give one square inch to each of the 35,000+ Palestinians killed since October 2023, we will need over 350 of these blocks of 100. The final banner, at 4 blocks (40 inches) wide, will be at least 87 blocks (870 inches, or 73 feet, or 22 meters) long. There are over 200 artists contributing to this piece. All in screaming solidarity. Free Palestine. #aninchforeachofthedead

Streamlining communications and intake process hopefully — everything you need to know to contribute to this collaborative quilt can be found at the link in my bio! I’ve made a google doc that I’ll keep up to date with all needs and a form for you to fill out when ready to ship, after which I’ll send you through shipping addresses. Still (!!) accepting blocks, continuously I’m the US and until January 31 in the UK and NZ. As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions, concerns, or ideas as we figure this project out together. Grateful for your continued contributions and support and community 🤍 All for a Free Palestine 🍉 #aninchforeachofthedead

Nobody can say we did not now. “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality” James Baldwin @keirstarmer @davidlammy @yvette_cooper_mp @skynews @bbcnews @guardian @telegraph @aljazeera @ft_weekend #garylineker #bellahadid #katherinehamnett #annielennox #pattismith #culturalintifada #peoplesupportingpeople #autumnvibes #mediterranean #sailboats #love #kindness #food #babies “THE SILENCE OF THE PAST IS GONE”@khalid3bdalla @naibarghoutiofficial @triojoubran @annamariajacir @beastfromthe_middleeast @rosieplasticsurgeon @dr.ghassan.as @thereddress_embroidery @iamrozemusic

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🧵🎶 Art and Music in Solidarity with Palestine Two powerful acts of remembrance and resistance come together this Thursday, 5th June in Cambridge. 🧵 An Inch for Each of the Dead A growing memorial quilt, stitched with grief and defiance. Each square inch of fabric represents a Palestinian life lost since October 2023 — a haunting visual of the genocide’s toll, and a global call to witness. 🎶 Make Freedom Ring – Emergency Aid for Gaza 📅 Thursday, 5 June 📍 Cambridge Junction 🕖 Doors 7PM | Concert 7:30PM 🎟 £30 / £15 concessions 👉 Book now – tickets are going fast! Link in BIO An unforgettable night of Palestinian traditional, Irish folk, South Asian, and Western classical music. Featuring: 🎹 Yousef Mattar – teenage pianist from Gaza in one of his first UK appearances 🎻 Sinéad O’Halloran, Leyth Elmani, George Herbert, Carlos Cerchiaro, Kareem Samara, and more. All proceeds go to: ⚖ Defend Our Right to Protest Legal Fund (via ELSC) For Cambridge & SOAS Students 🍽 WFP Palestine Emergency Appeal This is a moment to come together — to honour the lives lost, uplift the living, and transform grief into action. #AnInchForEach #MakeFreedomRing #AidForGaza #ArtAsResistance #MusicForPalestine #CambridgeEvents #SolidarityThroughArt #Protest #Palestine

100/62000+(++) 026 5/10 from @aklu.mode "I am not a quilter, this is the first time I done anything like this. As you can see it’s WONKY. At first I was frustrated but I kept thinking about all the individuals lost, all of them different all of them a whole universe, and I decided I wouldn’t want them tidy. I want them weird, and unruly and unique as all of those lost lives. Sometimes a pattern of colours emerged, and I couldn’t not think of them as families. I have used the fabric leftover from early Covid days. Do you remember that all of us seamstresses were sewing masks, to help to protect our community? I was choosing fabrics to cover every taste from granddads to little girls. Now it’s not for protection but to remember. I wish we could do more." #aninchforeachofthedead

100/62000+(++) 026 4/10 from @aklu.mode "I am not a quilter, this is the first time I done anything like this. As you can see it’s WONKY. At first I was frustrated but I kept thinking about all the individuals lost, all of them different all of them a whole universe, and I decided I wouldn’t want them tidy. I want them weird, and unruly and unique as all of those lost lives. Sometimes a pattern of colours emerged, and I couldn’t not think of them as families. I have used the fabric leftover from early Covid days. Do you remember that all of us seamstresses were sewing masks, to help to protect our community? I was choosing fabrics to cover every taste from granddads to little girls. Now it’s not for protection but to remember. I wish we could do more." #aninchforeachofthedead

100/62000+(++) 026 3/10 from @aklu.mode "I am not a quilter, this is the first time I done anything like this. As you can see it’s WONKY. At first I was frustrated but I kept thinking about all the individuals lost, all of them different all of them a whole universe, and I decided I wouldn’t want them tidy. I want them weird, and unruly and unique as all of those lost lives. Sometimes a pattern of colours emerged, and I couldn’t not think of them as families. I have used the fabric leftover from early Covid days. Do you remember that all of us seamstresses were sewing masks, to help to protect our community? I was choosing fabrics to cover every taste from granddads to little girls. Now it’s not for protection but to remember. I wish we could do more." #aninchforeachofthedead

100/62000+(++) 026 2/10 from @aklu.mode "I am not a quilter, this is the first time I done anything like this. As you can see it’s WONKY. At first I was frustrated but I kept thinking about all the individuals lost, all of them different all of them a whole universe, and I decided I wouldn’t want them tidy. I want them weird, and unruly and unique as all of those lost lives. Sometimes a pattern of colours emerged, and I couldn’t not think of them as families. I have used the fabric leftover from early Covid days. Do you remember that all of us seamstresses were sewing masks, to help to protect our community? I was choosing fabrics to cover every taste from granddads to little girls. Now it’s not for protection but to remember. I wish we could do more." #aninchforeachofthedead

100/62000+(++) 026 1/10 from @aklu.mode "I am not a quilter, this is the first time I done anything like this. As you can see it’s WONKY. At first I was frustrated but I kept thinking about all the individuals lost, all of them different all of them a whole universe, and I decided I wouldn’t want them tidy. I want them weird, and unruly and unique as all of those lost lives. Sometimes a pattern of colours emerged, and I couldn’t not think of them as families. I have used the fabric leftover from early Covid days. Do you remember that all of us seamstresses were sewing masks, to help to protect our community? I was choosing fabrics to cover every taste from granddads to little girls. Now it’s not for protection but to remember. I wish we could do more." #aninchforeachofthedead

The immensity of loss in Gaza is hard for our brains to comprehend. It’s hard for our hearts to hold. Instead of trying to process the grief in our bodies, let’s try externalizing it 🪡 Thank you @aninchforeach for the invitation to make a tactile representation of every single life killed in Gaza. When the numbers are broken down into 100-square blocks, and each block into 10-square rows, it’s so much easier for our brains and hearts to understand thepain of each life lost, and how entire families have been killed. Lineages lost 💔 Fatima Hassouna was a photojournalist in Gaza who’s life is featured in a new documentary by @sepideh_farsi_ . The day after the film was announced to premiere at Cannes, Fatima’s house was targeted by missiles. Her and her family were killed. I’m not sure if these are the names of those specific family members killed that day, but I image that all the people with the last name Hassouna killed in Gaza since Oct 2023 are family ❤️‍🩹 May we grieve for the Palestinians as people who were cherished and loved. May we continue to honor them in our own lives. May we see our shared humanity. Thank you, Palestine 🙏🍉