Twich Women’s Sewing Collective: Activism through Enterprise, Social Change through Culture

The Twich Women’s Sewing Collective is a Victorian-based social enterprise that uses art and fashion to engage with, challenge and transform mainstream representations of Sudanese Australian communities. A key feature of how they do this is through the occupation of public spaces. In this essay, I argue that Twich’s engagement with diverse publics through both trade and cultural activity has an important political dimension, prioritising self-representation over being represented, and thereby challenging dominant (hegemonic) structures of power.