Hello,
I’m Cordelia Rizzo.
Mexican activist,
scholar, and maker.
A PhD Candidate in Performance Studies from Northwestern University I also hold an MA in Philosophy from KU Leuven. I’ve worked as a human rights consultant and in community outreach for several NGO’s and government organizations.
I focus mainly on embroidery, since one of my main sites of research is the transnational Embroidering for Peace initiative, which began in 2011 to protest organized violence (the war on drugs) in Mexico
My doctoral research probes the language of textile making to theorize what makes memory work possible.
It centers touch as a medium of knowledge in times of political crises.
My dissertation addresses feminist critiques of politics and knowledge production in textile work from my native Mexico. This project delves into Indigenous knowledges and weaving to identify feminist and anti-colonial components of the protest imbricated in textile making.
