@kate @fskornia (replying very late) I do know about these. At the end of a very difficult week in 2023, I did a day trip to London to see https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/souls-grown-deep It was amazing ! It wasn’t just quilts but all sorts of art made from scrap. I can’t tell you what an impression it made on me 💕

@kate Yes ! One could wonder whether being able to identify author segments is good/bad 😉

@kate I love what you say here about “searching for signs of human writing”. I will try to do this in reading in future. It also sparked the memory of that point in the process of collaborative writing where you read a part where you can’t identify the author. Sometimes, it’s the mark of an idea/concept/assertion that emerged from the collaboration -possibly rare but a joy when it happens.

The more that AI promises to do the work of reading, summarising and composing for us, the more I’m searching for signs of human writing. That’s what this hashtag is to me: respecting the effort and craft and all the signs of life, the writer’s own handprint.

It’s the moment where you see the palm shape of the potter in the pot, the typo, the irregularity in the quilt. I once saw a boot print in paint on the margin of a huge Pollock canvas and I’ve never forgotten it. I think we can see it in digital writing too.

#WordsWorthWriting

Thinking of the #FemedTech quilters especially @francesbell but also remembering being inspired by the quilt bloggers at the early Northern Voices conferences.

Times are demanding even more acts of protest. Get the craftworks going.

https://aeon.co/essays/when-womens-needlework-becomes-an-act-of-subversive-protest

@cogdog thanks for this Alan. It has reminded me to dig out a book (still stuck in a box since our house move in November) by Roszika Parker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozsika_Parker?wprov=sfti1 “The Subversive Stitch”. Folk can look at the FemEdTech quilt at https://quilt.femedtech.net/quilt/ thanks to https://ammienoot.com/ In our chapter in #HE4Good we also stressed the history of stitch/quilting as being a site for collective endeavour by women (not just upper class women) https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0363/ch10.xhtml#_idTextAnchor037

@marendeepwell @blamb hi Brian Good to come across you #onhere Maybe you (or some UK person) can help. I passed the first postcode hurdle by omitting the space but failed postcode hurdle at payment stage - didn’t like postcode with/without space. No hurry but maybe we could look at this in New Year.

@magsamond I can’t like this 😢 - let’s set the world to rights with a chat in the New Year

@lornamcampbell/113674376705399541 I trust that she will recognise the seeds of cultural change she has sown. The potential for change is spread across those she has inspired. This, for me, is a feature of feminism - that we don’t rely on the knight on a white charger - we turn to solidarity, kindness and hope, and make the change. Women are actors not objects, and feminists can find joy in taking action together , even in distressing circumstances.

@lornamcampbell/113674376705399541 Watching the trial, it became clear that Gisele couldn’t change the 20 year maximum sentence for rape that her former husband received, or the even lighter sentences that many of her rapists received. Gisele has been recognised as a feminist icon, acknowledged by the women and men who came to applaud her as she left each day of the trial. She can’t know that culture and laws will change in France but …

I have loved the conversations around https://mastodon.social/@lornamcampbell/113674376705399541 by @lornamcampbell and Lorna’s ideas about feminist refusal. Like many of you I guess, I have been gripped by the steadfast refusal of Gisele Pelicot https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnv35lp14z9t. Her refusal to accept shame, hence her fight for the right to waive anonymity in her husband’s rape trial and be reported under her Pelicot name that she abandoned as the trial concluded

@econproph I retired in 2013 ( and cannot recommend it highly enough). As a milestone, retirement looked very different to me in anticipation than in reality, and that required a period of transition. The health reasons may provide valuable focus. My retirement coincided with the onset of a treatable health issue. The negotiation of this really helped my to find the retired life I wanted. I hope you’ll find what Lorna wrote about slow ontology relevant and useful.

@lornamcampbell thanks so much for this post Lorna -like Catherine I actually commented 😂 @kate @loumycroft @catherinecronin @czernie

@lornamcampbell And I am thinking of you too Lorna - maybe we can speak in the new year

@magsamond I appreciate this Mags and hope to chat when convenient ;)

@cogdog our story for today is about lovely granddaughter O who was so distressed by the lack of cake at her cousins party at the weekend that she had to retreat for a while to recover. Fortunately at the next birthday celebration here, we had after-school and after-tea cake that met (overmet) her expectations #cake #family

It’s my lovely late son Dan’s birthday today. We celebrate it. I saw this slightly negative review https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/nov/28/smoggie-queens-review-an-adorably-sweet-drag-sitcom today. I think Dan would have smiled at the review and been keen to watch Smoggie Queens. #misshim

I just watched the last episode of Mr Loverman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Loverman_(TV_series)?wprov=sfti1 , based on a novel by Bernardine Evaristo. It was magnificent - Evaristo deals with a challenging subject with deftness . She enables us to look at cultural challenges and human nature and still leave us with hope for growth, change and possible futures. And it was very entertaining 👍

@actualham @catherinecronin @kate @czernie @econproph Thanks Kate :) I love that you identify the book as a living collaboration and acknowledge the connection to the #femedtech quilt . When we have been engaged in such significant processes the product (book or quilt) can almost become less important than the experience for authors/readers, makers/viewers . I like to imagine those experiences as rippling out to make a difference in the sad world we live in. #onwardsandupwards #ghaza

@CaramelizedShallots @kate oh I love it ! what an amazing encyclopedia of stitches !