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This practice-based paper presents The Lesbian Quilt Manifesto. This document frames, and states the aims of my practice-led research method. It is a polemical proposal for the Quilt as an effective methodology for re-visioning lesbian archive materials. The manifesto is part of a lineage of queer manifestos that demand and declare, including the Lesbian Avengers, ACT Up, Zoe Leonard and Paul B. Preciado. The Lesbian Quilt Manifesto answers some important questions like: What is a quilt? What is a lesbian? Why would you make a lesbian quilt? The manifesto situates the research method within the histories of women's marginalized creative production, domestic labor and communication through craft. It unsettles cozy, complacent imaginings of the quilt as a passive historical object, and re-positions the quilt as a dangerous object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]