Our Work
Rafunaama's work takes many forms: cross-border tapestries, community stitching circles, artist grants, facilitation toolkits, and library spaces where women can gather and make. Some are slow and long. Some meet once and leave something permanent. What holds them together is a commitment to working with communities rather than for them, and to building feminist futures through the oldest tools we have.
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Khwab-e-Rafu translates to ‘Dreams of Mending’. It is a cross-border tapestry inviting people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, as well as diaspora communities across the world, to stitch their dreams of a healed, peaceful future…Read More
The Mending Library is a small-grant initiative co-designed with the Free Libraries Network and The Community Library Project that supports community libraries to open stitching corners: spaces where reading meets repair...Read More
Stitching is our methodology to think and design with communities, not for them. The slow and repetitive process of stitching offers space for self-reflection and has a therapeutic effect on the stitcher...Read More
There is a word in Punjabi for what happens when women gather to weave and stitch together: ਤ੍ਰਿੰਝਣ (trinjan). Women would use this time to connect, reflect, and share stories while stitching...Read More