Established by Molly Davies, WAEN (Women Are Everywhere Now) facilitates creative workshops for women who feel invisible in today’s gender health gap. The conversations in the lead-up to and during the workshop threaded together themes of health, the body, intimacy, desire, and self-expression—examining them through the lens of the unassuming pocket. Historically absent from women’s clothes, the pocket has a rich and entangled history of power, secrecy and inequality. Throughout the workshop we asked questions like, ‘How do clothes give the body power?’ Before translating these responses, thoughts and feelings to bespoke pocket making.
Special thanks to Molly Davies for this collaboration, The Meeting House for hosting us, Yodomo Textile Reuse Hub for their generous donation of materials, and our participants who we hope to see again soon.