Sr. Irudayam Augusta watches closely as some 40 women move their hands to create exquisite embroidery on clothes in a historic 1774 building. Augusta, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, ...

Any hand stitcher will tell you: To embroider or crochet slowly mends the spirit, stitch by stitch. It is the one thing I can do to quiet my mind in the dark hours of night, when sleep is a chimera.

There is barely time for introductions before the women at Inaash Association are proudly unfurling their work for me. Reams of fabric embroidered with Palestinian tatreez are piled onto the table.

Puleng Segalo received funding from The National Research Foundation and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. How do we speak trauma? We know from medicine that people embody trauma, beyond words. It shows ...

Puleng Segalo receives funding from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. In June 2020, three months after South Africa entered the first of a series of hard lockdowns to slow ...