Khwab-e-rafu

Event Date: June 7, 2026 (1PM)

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‘Khwab-e-Rafu’ (Dreams of Mending) is a cross-border feminist textile art project inviting people from India, Pakistan, and the South Asian diaspora to stitch their dreams of a healed, peaceful future.

A future that dares to imagine beyond the scars of Partition and the wounds of ongoing conflict. Drawing on ‘rafu,’ a South Asian traditional darning practice, the project uses visible mending as both metaphor and method for repairing the growing divides between our nations.

This project emerges at a critical moment: in May 2025, India and Pakistan were engaged in military actions and on the brink of war. India also witnessed a disturbing trend of militarist agendas co-opting feminist language to justify violence and conflict. Khwab-e-Rafu directly challenges this appropriation by reclaiming feminist values of care, repair, and solidarity as radical acts of peace-building, not war-mongering.

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