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Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, the fiction of Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the convener and founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black Lives Matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast...

Cultured Expressions on the Stitch Please podcast: episode 52 and episode 78 .  Find Lisa Shepard Stewart on social media Website:   www. CulturedExpressions.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CulturedExpressions/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/culturedexpressions/ YouTube:  www.youtube.com/CEFabricVideos/Videos Blog: www.culturedexpressions.wordpress.com Sign up for the Black Women Stitc...

Host: Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of African American Literature and Culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, the fiction of Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the convener and founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black Lives Matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers on Bl...

  Mahdiyyah Muhammad is a self-taught Artist, Fashion Designer, and Instructor who began designing at a very young age, breathing new life into discarded clothing.  She draws inspiration from her practice of fabric alchemy; with an ability to take recycled, bio-based materials and turn them into one of one works of wearable art that boost healing properties. Taken from her research of naturally oc...

Lisa Woolfork is the convener and founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black Lives Matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers on Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she became a founding member of Black Lives Matter Charlottesville. Actually, she is active in a variety of university and community initiat...

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Deborah's gorgeous is shop, Our Fabric Stash, located within Seattle's Pike Place Market . This show was supported by Afros and Audio , ( instagram , facebook ) and by Bernina Bernina ambassadors and past Stitch Please guests include Aaronica Cole and The Corny Rainbow, Nefertiti Griggs Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and...

Jonelle Dawkins Momo con.  Blurred con  closet cosplay. Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Check out our Amazon Store Stay Connected: YouTube: Black Women Stitch Instagram: Black Women Stitch Facebook: Stitch Please Podcast

Laquana's Blue Cup Shop is on Etsy ,   Instagram That Black Chic Laquana mentions a   sewing class, Skirt Skills and follow-up classes with Brooks Ann Camper . Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Check out our Amazon Store Stay Connected: YouTube: Bla...

Find out more about Neci Love Harmon TikTok Instagram You Tube Website Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Check out our Amazon Store Stay Connected: YouTube: Black Women Stitch Instagram: Black Women Stitch Facebook: Stitch Please Podcast

Resources Mentioned: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mondes_threads/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mondesthreads Website: https://mondechisenga.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkL2FJlQ6U3NmPPtc10Z9hg Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitc...

Dru Christine's website is druchristine.com. Dru is also on Facebook and Instagram @druchristine BlackWomenStitch Instagram, homepage, Patreon Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Check out our Amazon Store Stay Connected: YouTube: Black Women Stitch I...

Learn more about DC Frocktails on the website and Instagram page.  Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Check out our Amazon Store Stay Connected: YouTube: Black Women Stitch Instagram: Black Women Stitch Facebook: Stitch Please Podcast

May 14th Is Black Fae Day. Learn more about this delightfully Black festive holiday from its founder and principal organizer Jasmine LeFleur and Kia Sangria, a 2022 ambassador. Both are visionary joy practitioners within the Black Fae community, a platform and annual event that increases the positive visibility of Black people in mainstream fantasy. These women are joining the Stitch Please podcas...

Aja Barber’s website , instagram , facebook Aja Barber’s book, Consumed: The Need for Collective Change Aja intentionally has only one sponsor, Vestiaire Collective and provides special access to her  Patreon supporters. Aja mentions Fashion Revolution , the world’s largest fashion activism movement What should everyone watch? Aja says “The Story of Stuff!”   BlackWomenStitch Instagram,   homepage...

Find Shams el-Din Rogers' on Instagram Shams mentions reading Vicki Robin , Shams volunteers at Creative Reuse Toronto . Lisa and Sham mention Aja Barber and her book Consumed  Aja is on the podcast next week! Lisa mentions a poem by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper Lisa also mentions Fannie Lou Hamer's 1971 speech "Nobody's free until everybody's free." Shams mentions Shaun King 's vertically-integra...

Follow Nefertiti Griggs on  socials! @thecornyrainbow and @nefertitihaidera (photography page) on IG  Meaningful sewing events:  Find out more about these on her website! Pretty Girls Sew Rippin Aint Easy challenge Rare Oscar De La Renta vintage Vogue pattern (met President Obama and Michelle) Beyonce 2016 Grammy bridal gown Her 2019 vow renewal gown Black Magic Collab with Spoonflower and J.Clapp...

Alexis Galloway on Instagram Sew Sweet Academy website, Alexis' Etsy Shop It's Sew Sweet to Learn Facebook group My Pretty Perfect Planner by Alexis BlackWomenStitch Instagram, homepage, Patreon Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Check out our Amazon...

e bond’s webpage Stitch Please Episode 113 "e bond's GLYPHS: A Fabric Collection of Black Women Writers" Stitch Please Episode 93 "Threads Across Time" with Sarah Bond Lisa's teaching partner mentioned Tobiah Mundt interviewed in Episode 44: Tuft Love: Felt(ing) Emotions with Tobiah Mundt e bond’s Glyph fabric collection from Free Spirit fabrics Sarah, e and Lisa discuss Lucille Clifton's poem, "R...

Dr. Diana Baird N'Diaye Instagram @dndaiaye gorgeous website: https://ndiayedesign.myportfolio.com/ Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited or HARYOU Mamie Phipps Clark  and Kenneth Clark Cyril deGrasse Tyson led anti-poverty programs inside and outside of government Zelda Wynn Valdes , American fashion designer and costumer Arthur Mitchell , American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of balle...

Kianga Art webpage , instragram, facebook Reginald Lewis LaVerne Hall, Holiday Festival of Black Dolls Crowations International Black Doll Show and Sale , Philadelphia Faith Ringgold Gee's Bend Quilters Read Until You Understand; the Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature, Farah Jasmine Griffin Walter Dean Myers Of Water and The Spirit , Maliodoma Patrice Some  Palm Beach Culture Council Art...

Resources: Episode 12 of Stitch Please Social Justice Sewing Academy Stitching Stolen Lives: Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project book The Yarn Mission National Quilting Museum (a.k.a. Paducah) Latifah Saafir Libs Elliott Kevin E. Quashie, "Black Alivesness or, A Poetics of Being" Places to find Sara's book events and the Remembrance Project banners: Pacific International Quilt Festiv...

Patricia Turner Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters, Patricia Turner. January 2009 Paremiologist-one who studies proverbs Alan Dundes Ralph Ellison Gee’s Bend Claudia Rankine, Citizen Chimamanda Adichie Gladys-Marie Fry Deborah Grayson Stitched from the Soul, Slave Quilts from the Antebellum South , Gladys-Marie Fry Church's Chicken myth Underground Railroad Quilt Codes...

A House Called Hue, Destiny Brewton  Destiny's AMAZING webpage You can find her on facebook or on Instagram Black Women Stitch NEW webpage , patreon Sign up for the Black Women Stitch quarterly newsletter Check out our merch here Leave a BACKSTITCH message and tell us about your favorite episode. Join the Black Women Stitch Patreon Check out our Amazon Store Stay Connected: YouTube: Black Women St...

Kristine Mays website , instagram , facebook Eldridge Cleaver , writer and political activist ''Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.'' - James Baldwin Lisa shared her exploration of “Forecrafting:” using one’s limited resources to craft something that will save and preserve your future- whether you’re there to see it or not. inspired by Joshebed, biblical M...