LETS BUILD A MAP
Welcome to Tapestory! We’re so glad you’ve made it here.
At its bare bones Tapestory is an archive for African and South Asian queer feminist thought, stories, art, ideas and questions with an emphasis on work in its most radical and true form. You know – the version before the ‘published’, polished version.
At the level of our wildest dreams Tapestory is a living breathing growing cartography. A treasure trove of African and South Asian queer feminist minds and musings that one can visit, contribute to, find a political home in.
Tapestory [pronounced Tapestry] is the vision of queer Black feminists and queer Indian feminists to build an online archive and cartography of African and South Asian queer feminist thought, practice, experience, art, love and resistance in their most liberated forms.
Rooted in South African and Indian histories and ancestries of liberation struggles against white supremacist decimation of land, culture and life and guided by African and Indian feminist reclamation, creations and retellings of truth and power, Tapestory is an experiment in [our] world mapping and [our] world building.
Tapestory gathers us in community to preserve and showcase our ideas, art, theory, in their fullest forms, as they exist before we must tweak and twist them to become comprehensible to dominating, western and white-supremacist ways of being and understanding.
Tapestory is a seed bank for our intellectual and artistic pursuits and questions; collecting, storing and preserving. A garden where those seeds get planted and nurtured, sometimes next to others to cross pollinate and become wild new creations. And a map to trace, study and learn from what’s growing, what’s missing and what thrives from the company of another.
