Quilty Mama 🪡🧵

She might watch content with guidance, advice, etc. for women. Maybe some stuff that pushes back on tradwives, MLMs and other problematic content aimed at young women? Honestly not sure, but I’m thinking algorithm?

Someone I love who does not want to be pregnant in forced-birth, pro-sepsis Louisiana is worried her IUD is affecting her partner and I am fuming

Fired my first glaze kiln and here are some of my favorite ceramics to come out of this load.

Ceramic greenware house with a woman, baby, and cat on the upper floor. Beneath them are books, apples, and a snake. Parade are two figures.

Cat trinket dishes fresh from the bisque kiln waiting for glaze.

So many things happening in the studio! Especially excited about these two things that are slowly moving through the ceramics process.

Amy Sherald’s Trans Lady Liberty Painting Graces New Yorker Cover The artist withdrew her exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery over concerns that the artwork would be censored.

🎵 She's beauty and she's grace/she's Miss United States 🎵

Hand drawing of a skeleton appearing to be that of a lady with hair & bangs seated at a table holding a goblet, behind her, a picture on the wall also of a lady skeleton-likely Mona Lisa. Below, a typed brief six paragraph note describes the happenings of the last few days from the evicted restauranteur's perspective, including contact with the purported new building owner/partner who claims they're now backing out of the restaurant because people had found their address & were concerned for their family's safety.

Local earthquake/MonaLisa evicted causes local tsunami.

The Internet remains unbeaten. From Reddit:

Stay tuned...

Today is no-fee day at all of our national parks. I do not think there will be another until we fix ourselves.

So if you can, go enjoy something today. Be a part of the statistic that says our parks are worth more to us than a mineral rights contract.

And when everything clicks, your art has the potential to help others around you also process what’s going on or helps them find release or pleasure despite the chaos. This is important work at any time but especially in the face of fascism.

I think it can be difficult sometimes to sit down and make art when the world is on fire but making art can help you process what is going on. It’s not so much self-care(which is a phrase I kind of loathe) as a process that helps you find ways to move forward through this nightmare.

Thank you!

New Orleans: WYES.org, WWNO.org
Louisiana: LPB.org

Omg Cordyceps coffins 😳

😄 Get this kid a tiny Weezer concert tee

That’s good news. It’s on my list now 😋

Photo of a crumpled blue and white quilt with one side flipped up to show the binding and back. White stitching on the solid blue back makes an interlocking triangle pattern. A hand holds the partially stitched white folded binding, pierced by a threaded needle where the stitching progresses.

Progress pic for pinned post 🪡🧵 #WIP #quiltsky

Thanks! It turned out to be my favorite quilt, once I finally finished matching up six points a thousand times 😅

If you are craving beignet, try Big Jones and report back. I gotta know if they get it right ☺️ My son is in Edgewater and told me it exists but he hasn’t been

I’m about to dig out that letter 😡

Gross. When the archbishop tried to redirect 2nd Harvest funds, was rebuffed by the board, then fired them all, I nixed my recurring donations. Got a letter assuring me that all money goes toward feeding people. Couple weeks ago, I made up for the missed donations because people need food but WTF

I love Chicago. My son wants me to move there because her is concerned about healthcare access here. (His field is public health and I’m navigating that system as a patient rn. Not easy.) I’m not keen on leaving New Orleans but, if I had to, Chicago would be tempting.

Thanks so much ☺️

Thank you 😊

Thank you :)

A large quilt in a pattern of diamond shapes against a white background. The diamonds are formed by 60 degree triangles in a various of blue, aqua, and teal solids alternating with white triangles. The quilt is being held up by an unseen person standing behind it. In the background are palm trees and a bayou.

Quilt in the wild 🌿 City Park, New Orleans

(Ew, might have made my own skin crawl just then!)

“Yes, perfect!” someone cheers as they all bounce in their cushy seats with little excited claps and squeals.

First read that as an abbreviation for the notorious transphobe / wizard author and it didn’t seem completely wrong lol. What a world

I’m imagining these people drinking wine in one of their plush living rooms, honing their nimby message down to “genocide.”

If you have a venue, restaurant, store, bar... with a website, please include accessibility info. I shouldn't have to do extensive homework to determine if my husband can safely access your space. I shouldn't have to beg for this info from gold-star arts orgs in 2 cities, and not receive a response.