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@leighmink.bsky.social

🧡🤍🩷 She/her. Obsessed with #WomensHistory & #QueerHistory♀️🏳️‍🌈🗃️, #Craft, including #RageStitching🧵🪡, & our #Whippet puppy, Willow🐶. Wife & #BonusMom👩‍❤️‍👩👦#QueerJoy. Sometimes fossil-hunter. #Skystorians #Craftivism

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Carol (originally titled The Taste of Salt), by Patricia Highsmith.

05.02.2026 08:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Anne Lister & Sibella Maclean Anne Lister journal transcriptions from 1828

Why were Anne Lister’s 1828 diaries called ‘tedious’? They hold the coded truth of her relationship with Sibella Maclean. I transcribed them in lockdown (before the full WYAS scripts were out), to bring their story out of the margins🗃️🖋️
annelistersibellamaclean.wordpress.com
#Skystorians #AnneLister

02.02.2026 17:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#Skystorians #WomensHistory #QueerHistory #SubversiveStitching #Craftivism #FiberArts #Histodons"

02.02.2026 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oops, I should also have mentioned Janie Terrero and the Holloway Suffragettes, Annie Parker, and the women of the Rajah Quilt. 🧵🗃️
The needle has always been a tool for the silenced. 🏳️‍🌈✨

02.02.2026 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Hi @k8lister.bsky.social​, love the pod. Ever consider an episode on 'Stitched Rage'? Lorina Bulwer (Dolly Sen’s book), Mary Frances Heaton & others used needlework to protest while incarcerated. Isabella Rosner’s 'Stitching Freedom' is a great ref. I've done 2 protest/rage sewing projects myself!

31.01.2026 21:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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