Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Talking With Shannon Downey About Using Cross Stitching to Dismantle White Supremacy. Really!
Season 3 Episode 2
Shannon Downey
In this episode Shannon Downey and I talk about how weird times call for weird solutions. Shannon takes this and runs with it in a way that totally surprised me. Shannon has figured out how to take something as seemingly benign as cross stitching and use that as a way to dismantle white supremacy.
This conversation is both funny and totally serious. Have a listen and be inspired to create your own weird solutions in these weird times.
Shannon Downey, better known as badass cross stitch, is a community organizer disguised as a fiber artist and craftivist. She blends her politics, activism and art into projects that are designed to inspire others to take action, think, discuss, engage with democracy and their community and find some digital analog balance.
For a written transcript of this conversation, click here.
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Harmonica music courtesy of a friend.