Workshop Announcement: Stitching the Political: Embroidery + Collective Reading as Slow Resistance
facilitated by Poorvi Gupta, in-person, New Delhi, India.
Stitching the Political: Embroidery + Collective Reading as Slow Resistance
facilitated by Poorvi Gupta.
When: March 28th 2026
Where: In-Person, New Delhi ( location shared with registered participants.)
Time: 3 hours, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Cost: 2000-2500 sliding scale ( includes material costs + refreshments )
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About the Workshop: We’re excited to invite you to ‘Stitching the Political: Embroidery + Collective Reading as Slow Resistance’ facilitated by Poorvi Gupta; a workshop that uses embroidery as a thinking tool to reflect on the intersections of the feminist politics we care about. Together, we will slow down and spend time with the ideas our bodies already hold. Through thread and fabric, we will try to bring those thoughts into form. You don’t need to be an artist or have any prior experience with embroidery. What we ask is a willingness to think, to read, and to engage with the political nature of art, because all art carries politics within it.
During the workshop, we will read short texts, reflect together, and begin creating a small piece of work that holds a thought, a question, or a feeling we want to sit with.
If you’re curious to learn a new skill, deepen your political thinking, and spend a slow Saturday stitching alongside others, this space is for you.
What to expect:
To create a shared, reflective space where participants:
Slow down their bodies and thoughts in a time of urgency.
Engage with political questions through hand movement, listening and textile rather than debate.
Understand politics as lived, embodied, intimate — not just institutional.
Produce a small embroidered response to a guiding question.
Leave with a personal artefact that holds their thinking.
The workshop treats embroidery as:
A feminist archive.
A method of contemplation.
A political gesture of patience in violent times.
No skill required — running stitch is enough.
It’s not an art class; it’s a thinking space.
It’s slower than a protest, but still political.
Imperfection is political.
About the Facilitator:
Poorvi Gupta is an independent journalist, a research consultant and an embroidery artist. Around a year and a half ago, she stumbled upon the art of embroidery by chance, and she has since developed it as her thinking tool, helping her writings. For her, writing and embroidery have now become inseparable. Her works have been published across multiple global and Indian publications including New Internationalist, Al Jazeera, The Polis Project, Women’s Media Center, Nikkei Asia, Article-14, among several others.