Josh Carples

Celebrating forgotten women who helped improved maternal health Honoring forgotten women like Anarcha Westcott, who significantly advanced maternal health amidst historical injustices in gynaecology.

Check out this podcast which talks about the Sew Their Names project (and has a link to the Sew Their Names film in the notes.)

Perhaps it was the AIDS Quilt that redefined what a monument could look like and who could create it. Or maybe it was the quilters of Gee's Bend or the Freedom Quilting Circle in Alabama, taking the scraps of their lives — old military camo uniforms, overalls, flour sacks — honoring the living and the dead. Quilts as monuments, memorials, large and small, stretch far back into our American story.

https://kitchensisters.org/podcast/quilts-as-monuments/

Monuments are a contentious issue these days in the South and beyond. But right now, in Alabama, the Sew Their Names Project — some 20 quilters, a reverend, and a judge — are bringing unlikely collaborations together to embroider the names of hundreds of forgotten people who were once enslaved. Creating quilts that record and tell.

Today The Kitchen Sisters, together with Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, present: Quilts as Monuments: Sew Their Names

Vegan night at Perennial 🤤 so good