Sanaa learned to embroider from her mother and aunts. Embroidering was part of their way of life and Sanaa’s mother did it to help with the family finances. Sanaa used the money she earned to pay for school because the fees were too high for her family. Through embroidery she achieved some independence and agency. Embroidery serves as material expression of the Palestinian experience, history, and identity. Palestinians use embroidery to generate income, discuss Palestine, and build new social networks. Using Palestinian embroidery as a space, this paper discusses the informal politics taking shape in women-only spaces. This paper will utilize ethnographic research of Palestinian women who embroider and sell their products to understand the formation of an informal and soft politics by a population living under an entrenched system of oppression. The aim of this paper is to understand how one’s political subjectivity is shaped by one’s existence in such a system. What kind of politics takes form in everyday spaces? In particular, women-only spaces, criticized for being gender-normative, but are actually spaces where women become self-sufficient and develop new support systems? Embroidery as a space is not without its challenges. It has been criticized for upholding gender-normative traditions because women generally embroider in their homes and are viewed as embracing gender segregation. But in this case, upholding such traditions benefits women and Palestinians as a collective both politically and financially. Embroidery as a space serves as a meeting place for the different Palestinian actors across various social, political, economic, and religious spaces, who are exhausted by conflict and seek to change the Palestinian narrative globally and maintain their existence as Palestinians – a political endeavor. This space is rooted in women’s work but utilized by the Palestinian collective. In particular this space allows us to understand how individuals and collectives maneuver through an entrenched system of oppression politically when direct confrontational acts, such as protesting or speaking publicly can bring forth severe punishment or death and formal politics has failed them as a people. This paper seeks to understand a form of politics exercised by women globally, which takes form as a combination of quiet resistance and economic self-sufficiency. A politics that seeks not only that a people survive, but also thrive by making erasure of the native near impossible.