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The Squad in ActionTony Vo2020-08-24T19:51:28-04:00

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🎊Happy Graduation Class of 2021!🎊 Our Aunti

🎊Happy Graduation Class of 2021!🎊

Our Aunties are sewing masks for graduates of East LA College who are mostly working class and deeply impacted by the pandemic. They are still needed!

"Now that we are all fully vaccinated, the Peaceweavers' sweatshop is back up and running! Dolores Carlos and Kathleen Smith have vintage Singer 221s. Patty on the left has a handcrank Singer 128 La Vencedora from 1919, and I am using an early 60s Singer 237. We love our vintage Singers! #wegodownsewing" -- Auntie Lorena

🍄What are we doing with our scraps? And when yo

🍄What are we doing with our scraps? And when you make 300K masks, there are A LOT OF SCRAPS!!!🍄

"I was so taken with Mai-Linh Hong’s post about the beautiful gesture from her neighbor with her mask scraps. What a great keepsake from such a crazy time.
With the light at the end of the tunnel in sight with vaccinations and CDC’s latest mask announcement, we may get to retire soon.

I built a 2x3 loom and am making my own keepsake."

-- Auntie Lisa

For those who want to make your own loom:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2c_Agdw068

🚨 HELP!! WE ARE STILL LOOKING! Are you a MATCH

🚨 HELP!! WE ARE STILL LOOKING! Are you a MATCH for our Auntie Sally? 🚨

Auntie Sally made hundreds of lifesaving masks during the pandemic, but now she needs a stem cell transplant to save her life!

If you are 18-44, TEXT "RallyForSally" to 61474 and a test kit will be sent directly to you. It's a simple cheek swab. YOU COULD BE HER MATCH!

POC are grossly underrepresented in the National Registry so it's critical everyone be tested so everyone can be helped!

❤️PLEASE POST WIDELY!!! WE LOVE OUR AUNTIE SALLY!!❤️

❤️❤️MEET THE ORIGINAL LAZY BABY-- JUNI!❤

❤️❤️MEET THE ORIGINAL LAZY BABY-- JUNI!❤️❤️

We call Juni the "Lazy Baby" because while all of us were working our asses off during this pandemic trying to sew and coordinate mask donations to farmworkers (which is what Juni's mom Super Auntie Laura did while nursing), Juni just sat around looking cute.

Sure Juni hadn't yet learned to walk or talk yet, but was that really a legitimate excuse for not learning how to use a fabric power saw or serger? We think not! Hence-- LAZY BABY!

Anyway, even though Juni has yet to finish sewing ONE mask, we still honor her as the "OG LAZY BABY" and we congratulate her mother on finally awakening her interest in sewing, as pictured here...

Oh yes, and while you don't know how to thread a needle yet, we congratulate Lazy Baby on learning to walk and talk during the pandemic. I guess we can't learn ALL the talents in the first year of life can we? 😍😍😍

When Aunties collide! Our Aunties were mostly str

When Aunties collide! Our Aunties were mostly strangers before the pandemic but this labor of sewing for other strangers has brought together new friendship. Here's a picture of Aunties Kathleen and Adriane!

"Spent a wonderful morning extended walk with Arianne, another Auntie from my hometown . What a treat to connect and learn about each other. We both grew up in Hayward and have so many connections. Turns out we both work in higher education and for the same system. Love getting to know you and talking about work, sewing, sewing outside of masks and just about life in general. Was a lovely way to start my weekend with another Auntie!!! This was great Auntie Care ❤ Thank you, Arianne for suggesting we meet!" -- Auntie Kathleen

❤️❤️Our Auntie Kathie is a BEAST on the se

❤️❤️Our Auntie Kathie is a BEAST on the sewing machine! She just finished making 1400 masks!! Total is now 4085 for Auntie donations & 4650 total. ❤️❤️

She's given 565 masks family, neighbors, friends, a dog rescue (Angel City Pit Bulls) & Revolutionario North African Tacos to distribute to Korean elderly.

We were so happy to see this post from our friends

We were so happy to see this post from our friends at TEJAS a couple of weeks ago! This organization serves a "fenceline" community and their goal is to promote environmental protection through education, policy development, community awareness, and legal action.

Learn more about them at https://www.tejasbarrios.org/

"We are proud recipients of Reusable Masks made by Auntie Sewing Squad. ❤️ The aunties volunteered their skills to provide free masks for our communities. Find us at the Immigrant Rally today distributing more. #maskuphou "

🚨🚨🚨BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! THE AUNTIE SEWING SQ

🚨🚨🚨BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! THE AUNTIE SEWING SQUAD BOOK IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! 🚨🚨🚨

📒 We are delighted, and a little shocked, to share that The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice is available for pre-order!

📕 The extraordinary care, commitment, dark humor, and CBD deliveries of the Auntie Sewing Squad preserved the sanity of hundreds of Aunties this past year... and may have also saved countless lives. Our co-editors are Mai-Linh Hong, Chrissy Lau and Preeti Sharma; with contributions from Kristina Wong, our Overlord; and Valerie Soe, Grace J. Yoo, Rebecca Solnit, and many other brilliant, fierce Aunties. This book is our BEAUTIFUL MANIFESTO about care, mutual aid, failed government, and justice.

📖 Many thanks to the crew at University of California Press, who believed in this project so much that they made us write it in under 5 months. They also gave us a beautiful cover and 50 color illustrations. Please buy the book so they'll invest in creative, critical, WOC feminist projects in the future!

❤️30% off code 17M6662, valid for UC Press website only❤️

🚨Own a real handsewn one-of-a-kind piece of Aun

🚨Own a real handsewn one-of-a-kind piece of Auntie Sewing Squad! 🚨

This denim banner with letters hand cut and stitched by Overlord Kristina is available for auction. The Armory Center for the Arts is allowing us to keep all the proceeds for our Auntie Care Fund so that we can continue to show care for the Aunties who have worked so hard to support so many communities.

💶BID here: https://e.givesmart.com/events/kG6/i/_All/dPLe/?search=

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