A Woman's Worth:
A Global Art Project
A global art project to illuminate voice, value, and resilience
Grounded in survivor-led storytelling, this initiative invites women and girls to contribute material pieces—fabric representing moments of harassment, rape and resistance—to a worldwide quilt-like sculpture; inviting contributions that transform hurt into a connected, empowering tapestry—an installation that speaks to dignity, resilience, and change.
This project has grown out of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and trafficking work I've been in for nearly nine years and is related to the commercial value of girls’ and woman’s physicality; especially how her vagina and breasts are valued as investments for men’s pleasure while the rest of her (and, ultimately, all of her) is deemed disposable.
The amount of financial and criminal risk that’s invested in the intentional disappearance of girls and young women because of the guaranteed return on said investment is the driving factor of sexual slavery and exploitation around the globe and it is supported by misogyny, fear and poverty (and fear of poverty).
The social mindsets, patterns and behaviors that continue to support sexual trafficking around the globe at a scale that makes Jeffery Epstein’s exploits tiny, inconsequential even, are in direct contrast to the financial gain received by pimps and traffickers, casinos and cryptocurrency exchanges and more.
Those mindsets (of religions, caste systems, fashions and more), that women and girls hold no value outside of labor for others—sexual and otherwise—are inherited and perpetuated through blood, mores, and eons-long practices that millions of women seek to eradicate and, to my dismay, maintain.
The primary material for this project is fabric. Clothing worn by women and girls has long been held as a measure of her value: what she was wearing has been identified as the reason she was raped or assaulted, she asked for it because she wore a particular thing. Because she’s not covered enough, she’s a distraction to male function. Her 'immodesty' is ‘begging for it’. In addition, the market for lingerie, intentionally designed for the male gaze and men’s responses, both counters and amplifies that same message.
How women dress is the first thing that makes her a whore, denigrating her in the eyes of other women especially, no matter that she’s never had a sexual encounter and doesn't want one, is strikingly intelligent, powerful, has great potential beyond her age and body. However, contrasting that with the measure of how she’ll never ‘catch a guy’s eye’ while she’s ‘dowdy’ or baggy or butch-y or ... something else that societies have deemed equally unacceptable is a paradox of clothing that we have all inherited.
With A Woman’s Worth, I want to turn global pain and histories on their head as part of eradication process by creating a globally-connected, quilt-like sculpture that rivals AIDS memorial quilts.
I’m asking women and girls to send me a piece of what they wore when they were cat-called, side-eyed, ogled, groped, assaulted or raped (or something representational if you no longer have the piece). From saris to shorts, service uniforms, long-sleeved shirts and mini-skirts, kurtas, burkas, dresses and jeans, please send them.
If you have the courage and energy, I’d also love for you to write the story.
The address is 305 Society Dr. #D3, Telluride CO 81435 USA
Please share this with the women you know!
All About Me
For the past 17 years, I've been a shaman and healer. Since then, I've worked with Ancestors and other energies for healing individuals, the ground, and communities. I move through the world as if in constant ceremony without, well, the ceremony.
For the past 13 years, I've been The Memory Keeper.
For the past 8.5 years, I've devoted much of my work to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women with a focus on the intersection between the Sinaloa Cartel and Indian Country across North America.
For the past 4 years, the hands-on healing work has transitioned from human bodies to the tapestry of canvas and color. In a savant experience, I became an artist through which the same energies bring significant physical and emotional healing as well as spiritual connection.
After my first direct experiences with God in 2006 and 2008, the conversations with God became earnest and regular in the summer of 2022 and have brought me to the unequivocal understanding that I've been prayed into existence and poured into being for the purpose of being the Voice of God for this era. The processes through which we eradicate global sexual trafficking are the springboard from which this particular Voice for the Voiceless is revealed.
