Content warning: guns and mutilation. When I was nine years old, Mom opened a cooler in the car, hauled a pork shoulder joint onto a meat hook and a chain, then hung it from a tree out in the middle-of-nowhere New Mexico. I was already enrolled in the local NRA gun safety classes. We were…
Read More More dead kidsAll five of these little beasts are done: pages sewn together, accordion folds sewn into place, covers attached, and flannel-lined storage bags completed. I discuss these books more here. Each ended up when closed 7.25×5.25″, about the size of a paperback book. They open to 7.25×50″. There are over sixty patriotic fabric appliques sewn into…
Read More ‘The Truth Remains’: finished!Back in 2002, I made this book: ‘The Truth Remains’, for the San Francisco Public Library’s ‘Reversing Vandalism’ project. That was a one-of-a-kind fiber art piece about silencing marginalized populations, but the text continued to resonate with me years later. In December of 2017, my own high school went through a school shooting that left…
Read More First look: ‘The Truth Remains 2.0’I’m an Independent, and I am actually proud of the House Democrats today. They made some history by staging a fearless sitdown in the House, in protest over the Republican refusal to even *look* at upcoming gun control laws. When Paul Ryan booted out CSPAN and turned off the microphones and cameras, he forgot about…
Read More #SFFpit tomorrow, + how about them Dems