at the start of april, i quit my full time job and flew to texas. it’s been the most gloriously happy, creative and sweaty two months. i filmed a costuming segment in spanish for telemundo, got caught in a police car chase, shot a gun (unrelated), learnt how to lace a corset, drank a lot of 7-eleven blue raspberry slurpees, fired a cannon, ate seven metric tonnes of queso, got informally adopted by the nielsens and costumed about 5000 people. i ❤️ tx!! 🤠🐴
two queer femmes who specialise in textiles + women’s work walk into a gallery...
it’s quilt a moment 🪡
“i came to realise that my mother, her mother, my aunts, and all the others from gee’s bend had sewn the foundation, and all i had to do was thread my own needle and a piece of quilt” ~ loretta pettway bennett
👖 loretta pettway bennett
💎delia bennett
🌵 (l) america irby
🪢 (r) essie bendolph pettway
🧦 (bottom) annie e. pettway
p.s. you should follow @commonthreadspress 🧵
