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600 Women around the world create a "healing blanket" against gender violence 

A “Healing Blanket” Against Gender Violence, Created by 600 Women Around the World

The Patchwork Healing Blanket movement has been used to heal trauma and as a catalyst for social change, bringing together artists and survivors to tackle this shadow pandemic “We need to protest and fight for change, but we also need to heal, that's the idea behind this patchwork healing blanket” – Marietta Bernstorff

Marietta Bernstorff is a cultural promoter, artist, and curator. She is the founder of Mujeres Artistas y el Maiz (MAMAZ), a women's art co-op based in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Women Unite With Blankets To Heal From Violence And Raise Awareness

In order to raise awareness about violence against children, women and Mother Earth, a large number of women artists from Mexico and abroad will present on January 26, in the Zócalo of the capital, more than 500 blankets embroidered, engraved, painted or decorated in different techniques, all allusive to these themes.

Women of all ages and from different parts of Mexico came together to raise their voices, making a call to society, which seeks to make visible the violence that exists against children, women and Mother Earth represented in art through the "BLANKET OF HEALING”.

Led by the activist Marietta Bernstorff, the call is entitled Patchwork, the healing blanket. Piece by piece, country by country. It is a social project that through art -photography, engraving, drawing- seeks to unite women from all over the world so that they participate in the elaboration of a monumental "healing blanket", which they plan to extend next January 26 at the Plate of the Zócalo in Mexico City.

This initiative to create a large-format healing blanket arose from the curator and cultural promoter Marietta Bernstorff and groups such as MAMAZ (Mujeres y El Maíz), who not only want to make violence against women visible, but also to act as a powerful and symbolic of link and healing.

On January 26, as part of various other expressions, a kilometric blanket was spread out on the esplanade of the zócalo in the historic center of Mexico City, under the concept of "Patchwork: healing blanket", led by the artist and curator of art, Marietta Bernstorff.

The National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Center for Research on North America, through its Internal Commission for Gender Equality, within the framework of the commemorative activities of the#8M, invite to the virtual talk:

THE HEALING BLANKET PIECES FOR THE VISIBILIZATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMENPresenter Marietta Bernstorff (creator) Moderator and academic coordinator Graciela Martínez-Zalce CISAN - UNAM Tuesday, March 8, 2022 

LINK ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY's Grade 6 Design Tech students used design thinking to address important issues relating to social and environmental justice culminating in a class quilt they contributed to the international textile art project, “The Patchwork Healing Blanket: Piece-by-Piece and Country-by-Country“