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The Red Hat: Anti-Fascism & Anti-Blackness in Creative Spaces
In this episode of Stitch Please, host Lisa Wolfork tackles a critical conversation about anti-fascism, anti-racism, and anti-blackness within progressive craft communities. Prompted by her experience in an anti-fascist knitting subreddit, Lisa addresses the Norwegian Red Hat of Resistance (Melt the Ice pattern), the problematic response to a Black woman's critique, and why anti-fascism without anti-racism is like "a dog chasing its tail." This episode is essential listening for understanding why Black women's critique is not dismissal but observation based on extensive lived experience in predominantly white creative spaces, and why it is so important for us to have...
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My core concern that brings me here is I am concerned about an anti-fascism that is not anti-racist and I am concerned about an anti-fascism that is anti-black. And I think that if one gets involved in an anti-fascism that is not anti-racist, it is like a dog chasing its tail. You are just going to be running in circles.
Hello, Stitchers. Welcome to Stitch Please, the official podcast of Black Women's Stitch, the sewing group where Black Lives Matter. I'm your host, Lisa Wulfort. I'm a fourth-generation sewing enthusiast with more than 20 years of sewing experience. I am looking forward to today's conversation, so sit back, relax, and get ready to get your stitch together.
Hey friends, hey it's Lisa from Black Women's Stitch and the Stitch Please Podcast and as I say every other week, this is a very special episode because actually I didn't really want to do this episode, but I was on Reddit and I was doing a little bit of research to feed my curiosity about the Norwegian red hat of resistance which indeed took me to
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