beautiful by @RebeccaSolnit: “The fabric of this country is forever being torn apart by hate and exclusion; it is forever being stitched into new patterns, new connections, new relationships … a quilter's art of bringing the fragments together into a whole.”
thinking of @francesbell, the creators of the #FemEdTechQuilt and the #AIDSQuilt, Rosa Parks, and all who carefully stitch together resistance & hope in so many ways.

Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Parks's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California at the Berkeley Art Museum Sunday afternoon. I love quilts and while I could love them purely