Project 2025, 2024
16.25” x 20.5” Cross Stitch Embroidery
Project 2025 is the policy wish list for the next Republican president. It includes proposals that further restrict the rights of women and LGBTQ people, roll back climate initiatives, and give the president dictator-levels of power, just to name a few.
One of the proposals that stuck out to me was a list of words and phrases that are to be censored from government:
“The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.”
This artwork takes those words and immortalizes them in cross stitch embroidery, signifying the work it took to have these definitions represented in government and what's at stake if Republicans regain leadership.
One of the proposals that stuck out to me was a list of words and phrases that are to be censored from government:
“The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.”
This artwork takes those words and immortalizes them in cross stitch embroidery, signifying the work it took to have these definitions represented in government and what's at stake if Republicans regain leadership.
