Núcleo Disca

Disability and citizenship

Tejer la memoria, bordar la diferencia: artivismo textil y agencia política de personas con discapacidad [Weaving the memory, stitching the difference: textile activism and political agency of people with disabilities]

Victor Romero Rojas y Roberto Fernández-Droguett

Points of interest:

  • The joint work with the Colectivo Nacional por la Discapacidad and the Embroiderers de la Villa Frei shows how community practices can challenge hegemonic narratives and open spaces of epistemic justice for historically marginalized groups.
  • Collective embroidery as an artivist and political practice.
  • The article highlights embroidery not only as an artistic expression, but as a tool of denunciation, resistance and political action. The textile works as a means to make injustices visible and question official narratives about memory and citizenship.
  • From an ethnographic and collaborative perspective, embroidery appears as a situated epistemological practice that integrates bodily experience, affectivity and collective narrative.
  • The article denounces how capacitative logics persist in cultural and public spaces, highlighting the exclusion of people with disabilities in Chile.
  • One of the central themes is how collective embroidery allows to work out pain and mourning in a community way.

Notes:

  • The following summary was made by Núcleo Milenio DISCA, and was based exclusively on the publication. Therefore, it cannot be used for citations and references.
  • This article was originally published in Spanish.

Romero Rojas, V., & Fernández-Droguett, R. . (2026). Tejer la memoria, bordar la diferencia: artivismo textil y agencia política de personas con discapacidad. HArtes, 7(13), 98-129. https://doi.org/10.61820/ha.2954-470X.2001

https://doi.org/10.61820/ha.2954-470X.2001