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...quilt is more than functional weaving that drapes over a tired body. It is also a tool of education, a piece of art, a statement of political and social aims and a means of healing. The traveling AIDS Memorial Quilt is currently on display at Mather House’s Three Columns Gallery as part of a show that also features photography and video works related to the AIDS epidemic...
...Quilt arrived at Harvard through the initiative of Sarah Ann Murphy ’05 and Avra Van Der Zee ’02. Murphy works for the UHS-sponsored AIDS Education and Outreach program, which educates the Harvard community—especially first-years—about HIV/AIDS and STDs...
Murphy sees the quilt as an important statement. “Bringing panels of the quilt to Harvard would affect people in a way our outreaches can’t,” she told The Crimson. “It’s one thing to be presented with facts and information; it’s another to see panels handmade for loved ones…These panels could be a memorial to anyone. That is important to realize about HIV/AIDS—no one is immune...
...NAMES Memorial AIDS Quilt began in 1985 at a gay rights vigil with cardboard name placards dedicated to those lost to AIDS. It was first displayed as a fabric quilt in 1987 in Washington D.C. From an initial 1,920 panels, the quilt has grown to 44,000 panels—a total size of 26 football fields. The quilt has been on display in Washington, DC several times, including at President Clinton’s Inauguration. Likewise, the panels have toured throughout the nation, attracting 14.5 million visitors...
...quilt of the 20th century was a patchwork of bloodstains, one of the largest spreading from the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, when the departing British ordered Hindus to live in certain areas and Muslims in others. Millions of Hindus and Muslims picked up their belongings and took flight. And then the slaughter began: up to 1 million lost their lives in the bloody end to the colonial era. The most indelible memory of that tragedy is of railway carriages, filled with stabbed and mutilated corpses, coming across the border from India or from the newly created Pakistan...