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Transform(émonos)

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Transform(émonos) Artists and students at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) come together and with support from Dr. Graciela MartínezZalce to form the Transform(émonos) feminist embroidery collective. Each member of the collective chose a photograph from the Youth United Will Never Be Defeated exhibition to work with. They printed the photographs onto cotton and intervened with stitched designs and words. Following the photovoice methodology, the artists wrote captions to accompany their embroidered reflections. Themes were amplified, such as homophobia, lesbophobia, the unequal distribution of labour and unpaid work, Trans Pride, gender-based violence, misogyny, discrimination, colonialism, and sisterhood. The transformed images were exhibited alongside the original ‘Youth United’ photovoice exhibition in June 2025 at the Center for Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM. The exhibition aptly coincided with Pride month in Mexico City. The embroidery has since been exhibited at the Nova Scotia College for Art & Design (NSCAD) at the Treaty Space Gallery in September 2025. We are now privileged to host the embroidery work at McGill University in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal. Each thread, each colour, and each stitch is crafted with intention by the artist, to challenge oppressive gender dynamics. By embroidering their reflections and calls to action onto the photovoice images, the artists added new layers of meaning—not only to the concept of photovoice, but also to the idea of travelling images.


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