Madejas contra la violencia sexista es un proyecto colectivo que crea una pieza artística a través de encuentros grupales que facilitan la toma de conciencia de las personas que participan en la denuncia contra la violencia de género. Un espacio de solidaridad para trabajar, crear y luchar contra la discriminación y la desigualdad.
Balls of wool against gender-based violence is a collective project that is creating an art piece through knitting-groups meetings where to raise awareness against sexist violence. A sorority space to work, create and struggle against discrimination and inequality
Since 2014, we have been teamed up with women from many autonomous communities and different countries in a space of learning and awareness, where to perform critical analysis and improve women’s reality all over the world.
Associations from Italy, Russia, Portugal, Mexico, England, Tunisia, Argentina -among some of those that came to us and keep on coming-, help us to bring the project’s threads to regions where the struggle for women’s equality is in different stages, but share a common commitment and a common determination.
As an example of sorority, participation is an essential axis of this initiative.
… “In Balls of wool against gender-based violence, we knit a future where equality will be the rule and sexist violence will have been banished from everyday reality, being just a bad memory from the past” …
KNIT ACTIVISM
Since 2014 the Basque organization Harituz has worked with the project Madejas contra la violencia sexista – Skeins against gender-related violence. Its artistic symbol – a giant and constantly growing scarf – travels around the world with the aim of one day covering the EU parliament in Brussels. Today the whole scarf is almost 5 km long.