In Western feminism, labor is often about the office. In Luxmi’s Manipur, labor is the loom. Almost every collection features a scene where a woman weaves a phanek (traditional wrap-around skirt). As she runs the shuttle back and forth, she is weaving a map of her husband’s disappearance or the pattern of a protest. The loom becomes a metaphor for the cyclical nature of trauma.
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