The Queer Joy Community Quilt is the culmination of a series of workshops grounded in whanaungatanga and manaakitanga. The patchwork quilt is a labour of aroha and kotahitanga, and the result of the makers’ skill sharing, solidarity, and commitment to creating.
The quilt is an expression of each artist’s intersectional understandings of queer joy, reflecting cultural and personal histories. While attributed to individual artists, each square is also connected to the broader contexts of the queer community in Aotearoa.