Honourable Discharge
By Sarah-Joy Ford
2019 - 2020
This quilt is the first part of a larger quilted project that explored the tender bravery of Donna Jackson.
Donna was a an army dyke, discharged in 1990 for coming out as gay. She was featured as a cover girl on On Our Backs magazine in 1991. This was long before public challenges to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, and she was both thrown into the lime light and shunned.
This work is a love letter to her erotic fearlessness.
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