Women in Our Power Fighting for Climate Justice: Weaving our Stories of Struggles and Visions for a Truly Equitable and Sustainable Planet
The climate emergency is upon us, and it is women in Asia and the Pacific who are among the frontline communities facing its disproportionate impacts on top of hardships wrought by economic dispossession, fundamentalisms, and patriarchy. While government and industry leaders, climate experts and civil society convene in various conferences, the lived realities, insights, and initiatives of grassroots women are notably absent, if not intentionally sidelined and disregarded. Conversations around women- and community-led action such as collective community agroecological and energy initiatives, direct engagement, and movement building are hushed.
Additionally, radical alternatives are dismissed without understanding their transformative potential. We need to nurture a creative space for community and activist women to have their stories and visions be seen and heard, so that we can recognize and unleash the transformative power that we possess.
This workshop aims to gather women in Asia and the Pacific who are confronting climate injustice, build a creative and safe space for them to share their lived realities in facing the various forms of climate injustice in order to define the climate justice that we want, and build a vision for a safer, more sustainable, and socially just planet.
This will be done through a quilt-making workshop where participants will be given two different quilt squares and decorative materials – one to depict their climate injustice story, and the second square to visualize the future that they want especially in terms of the climate injustices that we currently face. Each participant will be given time to share what they have designed in their quilt squares. At the end of the workshop, the quilt squares will be joined together to form two cohesive tapestries – one a quilt of women’s climate stories, and the second quilt women’s visions for a climate and socially just future.
The spaces between the second quilt may be additionally added with ribbons with decorative text on “how do we get there” culled from sharings of women participants of their climate actions and ideas to achieve our vision. These quilts will then be reinforced and brought to spaces such as COP29 and even subsequent COPs as a powerful visual of what women in the Asia Pacific are experiencing and what we want to see for our future generations.

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