"In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice โฆ
"We can't knit our way to revolution," Loewe says. Oh yeah? Wow, what a femmephobic and classist statement. Many, many people have organized politically through cultural work - which includes knitting and quilting bees - for a very long time. I think it's a problem how Loewe dismisses this femme-identified form of cultural creation (and just managing your anxiety and making a sweater for your kid during a meeting). I think conversation and mutual support is a particular form of organizing that is often a femme organizing skill (not that other genders can't also do this) that isn't valued or witnessed enough in organizing because of sexism and femmephobia and transmisogyny. I think that knitting through meetings, and creating an organizational culture where that's seen as badass, is something that many of my badass working-class femme of color and white femme organizers do.
