a modest wish/vision — not quite a proposal The lobby of our Campus Center has — just inside the door, before you get to the campus store or the food court or anything else — an oldish looking piano painted
Making in the blood
I am spending this 2021-22 year writing about genealogy and family history, and I am spending this year (the first of several, I hope) being trained as a weaver. Those undertakings — both of which are creative, both of which
Making-sense
I would like this to be a post about how I feel … attached to, even inhabited by or at least dwelling alongside the things I make, but I do not yet have language for that.[1] So it will be
Caribbean Women’s Textile/Textual Practices as Archives of Memory and Mourning
a paper I delivered at the West Indian Literature Conference, University of Miami, October 5, 2018 abstract: In the Caribbean, textile practices such as sewing, embroidery, crochet and tatting have long served a double role within the gender education of
Sock-knitting as moral instruction
In “Weaving and Thinking Otherwise,” I knew I had thoughts about sock-knitting, but wasn’t sure what they were yet. Here’s a version of them (which I tried out on Twitter just now): There comes a moment in every sock-knitter’s life
Weaving and Thinking Otherwise
Handweavers tend to be looked upon as dinosaurs who are doing something that really doesn’t need to be done – “Why would you bother?” And I think that we have something to offer the world that is best expressed through