Weaving Us Together | TransPride 2025

May 17, 2025 | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Washington, DC

Textile artist and sculptor Roxana Geffen (she/her) brings a collaborative community art project to Trans Pride, inviting attendees to express their identities through color and story. As the proud mother of three kids—one gay, one trans—Roxana created this project to honor the beauty, strength, and diversity of the trans community. Visitors can choose yarns that speak to their identity, write about their choices on a Yarn Card, and watch as their contributions are woven into a collective tapestry on her floor loom. You can even create your own small weaving to be added to the final piece, blending individual expression into a vibrant celebration of who we are—together.

Final wall hanging

The final piece incorporates all the yarn choices, yarn cards and mini-weavings made by participants at the Weaving Together event. All these elements are brought together on a hand-pieced backdrop and hung on custom ashwood hanging rod.

Weaving Us Together booth

The Weaving Us Together table at the end of the day.

Yarn samples for mini weavings

Yarn Cards

“Orange is joy and brightness”

“I love Fire!”

“Yellow for the sun!”

Yarn Cards II

“I picked neon because I love trans visibility!”

“The Art of being Free — Tee”

“Color everything in shades of every hue — a bright universe”

“Love knows no color”

Yarn Cards III

“I’ve always believed purple to be the queerest color to exist.”

“These are the first colors I dyed my hair when I first came out”

“Blue-my mother’s favorite color / Black—like me / Purple—pretty, bright, royal”

“Purple, for the deepest love I have for my girlfriend and the love she has for me - Tamara / I love this color. It’s powder blue? I’m not a color scientist.”

“We’re all deeper than you think”

Yarn Cards IV

“It’s pretty!”

“Love knows no color”

“I choose these colors that represent the freedom I felt upon arriving in the United States as a trans woman the first time I came.”

“We are all different sizes and textures and we all still belong together.”

“This color makes me happy.”

Yarn Cards V

“Love Peace Happiness Loyalty”

“Texture”

“There is still time”

“I wanted you to Make a Heart that’s Broken with 2 Bandages out of these colors with wings And a Halo. That says Free Palastain”

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