Word: quilts
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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...
...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...
...Wages of Quilt Purging the Killing Fields By TOKO SEKIGUCHI/Tokyo...
...unwashed, stringy, chin-length, dirty brown hair is either tucked innocently behind one ear or wisping across his rugged, bearded chin. Dusty is sensitive. He probably plays the banjo and knows how to speak Cherokee. He’s the kind of wilderness man who will throw an old quilt his grandmother stuffed with genuine animal hair in the back of his vintage Ford pick-up (stick shift, ladies, not automatic) and drive you to a remote hilltop were you’ll feast on wild berries and jicama...