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Southern artist making tapestries for the working class 🌹 co-chair @dsa_chatt

Chattanooga, TN
Joined October 2012
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4 months
Studio visit with the leader of the free world!
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3 years
Stop making fun of women who can’t decide on a restaurant. The first woman who knew what she wanted for dinner was Eve and she paid dearly
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As President, I will use military power responsibly and as a last resort. We will not go back to forever wars in the Middle East. #DemDebate
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Dental hygienist: you have to floss more. stop drinking so much coffee and tea. You CANNOT go on living like this Dentist: (holding my jaw to inspect it like a prized horse) yup lookin good
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4 months
HANDS OFF!!!
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1 year
I love that Trump tried to award the Presidential medal of freedom to Dolly Parton and she turned it down, then when Joe Biden took office he tried to award her and she turned it down again
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4 years
“Whose Streets,” finished 2020!
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2 years
Of course B*rnie picks today of all days to have his birthday… he can’t resist a chance to overshadow a powerful woman 😒
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Hey we’re all going to the brewery for hecking doggo trivia night. It’s in a renovated factory with no sound absorption and you can play giant Jenga. The food comes out of a window that says SEND NOODS in giant neon letters. There are one hundred men named Greg here
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4 years
Guy I went to high school with painted this
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1 month
I suspect some of you view voting as a statement of your personal values, instead of a way to marginally improve the conditions for your everyday organizing work that could actually change the world
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2 years
RIP to public seating
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4 years
would be cool if liberals tried saying “UNIONIZE” as often as they said “VOTE”
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@thetolerantweft
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7 months
whenever I use the crosswalk and a car has to stop
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4 months
Wearing a hoodie to the senate was cool because it seemed like Fetterman had bigger priorities than his image. This bespoke tuxedo hoodie is loser shit and proves the opposite: he ONLY cares about his image
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Well, it is a black tie dinner!
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3 years
Union tiktok is good
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2 years
She gonna be dazed and confused on my Richard when we Linklater
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3 months
People getting upset about invasive kudzu in the south is funny because if you ask a botanist in Tennessee they’ll get a faraway look and say “there were never supposed to be trees at all”
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@thetolerantweft
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8 months
The amount of press the NYC Palestine protest has gotten for blocking traffic suggests it’s a very effective tactic that should happen more
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@thetolerantweft
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1 year
FUDGE IM WANTING MORE TELL THE WORLD TAX THE POOR
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@thetolerantweft
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It’s okay guys we can just vote out fascism, like the people of Atlanta could with the cop city referendum
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1 year
get their asses Dolly
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5 years
philly show flyers be like h o s r m 𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖔𝖑𝖆 n o y m 🅓🅡🅨 🅒🅞🅝🅣🅐🅒🅣 🅛🅔🅝🅢 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 8pm @ ᴍʏ ғʀɪᴇɴᴅ ᴊᴀᴋᴇs ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ (ɴᴏ ᴀᴅᴅʀᴇss)
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1 year
“Hot Labor Summer,” a rug I made for 2023!
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3 years
“Picket,” a love letter to the picket line 🧡
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What video is the reason they shouldn’t ban TikTok?
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1 year
POV you’ve spent 70 hours embroidering this
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Harris is a perfect Trump wario. Genuinely entertaining on camera, joyful and unbothered, full of fascinating statements that seem to flow from a place outside our reality and just shy of profound. The exact brand of insanity that wins over a dying empire. She’s about to cook!!!
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what is y’all most liked tweet?
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Some of y’all are saying you can’t imagine spending $25 on olive oil, or that you would hate getting a fancy grade olive oil as a gift. Baby that’s because your frontal lobe is still developing
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9 months
PSA: Whole Foods has Palestinian olive oil on the shelf! it’s $25 for a big bottle so basically the perfect holiday gift
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2 years
Made this drawing in solidarity with the students at East Ridge High School near Chattanooga who walked out in protest last week.
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Thread of every tapestry I’ve ever made. 🧵
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3 years
Seeing this design of mine going around on May Day made me emotional—a year ago I had no idea what I would do with no job and no union drive, but I liked making pro-worker drawings that might inspire someone. Knowing they have made an impact on people is really cool 🥲
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4 years
Philadelphia is the greatest city on the planet
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3 months
My entire region used to be tall grass prairie and almost everything you see is invasive, including lots of the big beautiful trees
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1 month
Kamala: I just love you guys’ hummus. with a little cracked pepper. some fresh lemon juice on top. HAHAHA Netanyahu: [new racial slur for Black and Tamil women he invented on the spot]
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@thetolerantweft
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5 months
I believe it’s time for a “me for scale” photo of this tapestry
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@thetolerantweft
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1 year
hey do you like this dehumanizing, destructive rug I made
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"Depicting company management as 12-foot diseased rats is dehumanizing and destructive," Heritage Foundation research fellow Rachel Greszler just testified before US Senate HELP committee in a dig at "Scabby the Rat"
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@HorsefacePakusa @Very__Regular If sipping is a crime then send my savoring ass to prison
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4 months
VOLKSWAGEN CHATTANOOGA HAS A UNION!!!!!!!! Solidarity forever!
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@thetolerantweft
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2 years
Once monkeypox is in the wastewater, it's game over for eradication; the sewers are swarming with rats. And who do you think is sitting on the heads of all the chefs at our five star restaurants?
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1 year
Choosing not to have kids does not opt you out of caring for the children of the future. Whether you procreate or not, there IS a next generation, and I’m annoyed by the arrogant nihilism of pretending your own abstinence is somehow helpful!
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10 months
No offense but fuck being “on the right side of history.” I don’t just want Palestine to be history. I want it to be the future.
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The US as it currently exists can only appoint evil Presidents. We’re not going to get a good option so just pick whoever makes it 10% easier to build working class power
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@thetolerantweft
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Joining a union is essentially saying you’re ready to throw down for any worker, even a stranger, and you know without having to ask that they’ve made the same promise to you. Metal as hell, everyone should do it
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Finished embroidering at 212 hours 👍
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2 years
Scabby has arrived at the Starbucks strike on 12th and Walnut 🐀
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"Grief Yes - Despair No," by Palestinian artist Abdel Rahman Al Muzain, 1982.
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7 months
Guys!!! I opened my show at List Gallery at Swarthmore! If you’re in Philly and you like my work, this is probably your only chance to see several of my most famous rugs!
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1 year
what strikes me about this tiktok creator is that she seems to be alone all the time, filming herself pretending to have fun in public. Pretty depressing
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10 months
I voted for Biden because I wanted him to tackle COVID-19. I got a pandemic denier who ended federal relief programs. I voted for Biden because I didn’t want war. I got a President who bankrolled the most staggering genocide of my lifetime and pretended it didn’t happen.
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2 years
Working on a rug about power for all Amazon workers!!!
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4 months
Starting to really understand why this guy’s entire staff has turned over in the last 9 months
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Last week, Fetterman got on Fox News to criticize Biden's liquified gas export pause. In 2018, he had joined Sunrise and @RepDanielle to rally against fracked gas pipelines. When a constituent asked why he flipped, he mocked her, then walked into a member-only elevator.
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@Proletarianizer My point is just that the things botanists think about are extremely out of pocket and unexpected
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@cherrylux96 Second week of creation God is already like “it’s on the syllabus”
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Illinoise musical is excellent. They finally made a Hamilton for people on Wellbutrin
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I’ve been working on this for 100 hours.
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Getting close to the top of this textile strike piece
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I’m trying to eat more fiber, and I learned you have to slowly build it into your diet because it gets broken down by gut bacteria, so you have to build up their population. So now I imagine myself as the leader of a small nation of bacteria that I’m feeding. Really fun outlook
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it’s official!!!! “Time Off Task” was just acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston! Amazon worker organizing is in the art museum ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
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Rashida Tlaib has more dignity and bravery in her pinky finger than all the other loathsome politicians in that room combined
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1 year
thanks for coming to see my tapestries!!!
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70 hours of embroidery !
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New girlboss juice from my neighborhood brewery that told its workers to reapply for their own jobs when they asked for hazard pay
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I’m very proud to be on the record saying this
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why did I make this
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I want to illustrate more of my ideas, even if they’re kind of irrelevant. So here’s one about my cousin Duncan who is trapped in a cycle of retail hell jobs
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Dave Matthews’ song “don’t drink the water” is about the genocide of native americans. he’s repeatedly taken a stand against settler colonialism over his career
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Musician Dave Matthews protesting against Netanyahus visit: "I'm ashamed that my tax dollars are going to the brutalising of an entire people"
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I just learned I got a grant from the Ford Foundation to support the creation of my labor tapestries, which will make it possible for me to keep them in public space for working people to see. Thank you Henry Ford, you would’ve loved my piece about the United Auto Workers!
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Someone posted a room for rent in the affordable housing fb group and this is the bathroom
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1 year
Over 100 hours gang
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Rug almost done!!!!!
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Biden dropped out and Kamala picked Walz. They did this because of MY posts!!!
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I liked that when Shawn Fain came to my studio, he pointed to the bottom of my tapestry (bottom-up is the correct order to read it) and said of the man holding the drill, “that was my job!”
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I offered free prints to cafe workers who are organizing unions, and based on my DMs… Starbucks has a LOT more union shops to look forward to 😌
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2 years
4 of the rugs I made this year 😌
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1 year
If you’re new here and you like tapestries about socialism, I keep my prints affordable at $20 each 🥰
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10 months
“For Philadelphia” finished today 🏀
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“Time Off Task” is about Amazon workers, the @amazonlabor union, and memorializing a movement from the working-class perspective 👁‍🗨
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(NPR podcast voice) are unions good for workers? impossible to tell… now, a message from our sponsors, Chevron and BlackRock
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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THESE HANDS!!! I finished my tapestry and got to show it to the workers I made it for 🙌
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“The Palestinian Revolution Lives,” Syrian artist Burhan Karkoutly, ca. 1978
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A worker shouted this at the Volkswagen victory party 🙌
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Kissinger dead
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The battle of wits has begun
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3 years
COFFEE FOR THE PEOPLE!!! (inspired by @SBWorkersUnited )
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I love to stay inside my pleasant, comfortable home until it becomes a prison for the mind and soul
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(Democrats tomorrow) Bombing a hospital is a morally repugnant act. That’s why we’re partnering with BetterHelp to offer free tehealth appointments to Pell Grant recipients in the Gaza Strip
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Not criticizing this person specifically, I mean it disturbs me the way tiktok encourages folks to interact with public space as if it’s just a backdrop for a private online audience. It’s increasingly hard to go about your day without being filmed by strangers like in video 1.
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Biden was a pro-union president, but I think we sell ourselves short when we attribute that to his character. Really, it’s the resurgent power of the labor movement that has forced politicians to start showing up to picket lines.
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“Let people enjoy things” has done irreparable damage to the culture. Let people grow thick enough skin that they don’t lose their mind over any criticism of the media they like
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Southern labor comrades, don’t work with @MikeElk . He hired my friends to “film the Volkswagen election” and subjected them to verbal abuse, inappropriate sexual comments, drunkenness on the job, and finally, stiffing them on agreed payment. He’s a liability to the movement.
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All eyes on Chattanooga for this historic labor moment! Let’s go Volkswagen workers 💪🚙🔥
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“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.” - Karl Marx 🚗
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Me, sowing: Haha, fuck yeah! Yes!!! Me, reaping: what a beautiful bounty of corn and other items ☺️
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