Christina Socorro Yovovich

The Woolly Animal of Dawn  – PLY Magazine

My essay about spinning for mental-health self-care is up at Ply Magazine's blog. I'm proud of this one. plymagazine.com/2025/02/the-...

20.02.2025 22:18 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Look. I am trying to keep my head up, keep my joy, keep fighting for my country and my people and people who aren't mine too. But I'll admit I thought it would take them longer before they suggested specifically shipping me off to a camp ("wellness farm") to do unpaid labor.

17.02.2025 03:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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16.02.2025 19:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This isn't a metaphor. If it was, it would be a pretty shitty one. (Done.)

04.02.2025 13:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

to let it do its thing, but to shape your reaction with the fiber supply so that you end up with a gorgeous fluffy yarn in the end. It will be strong, but not too tough, Full of air pockets inside, enough to keep someone so very warm when the air is cold. (continued)

04.02.2025 13:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In woolen-style spinning, you let the twist energy take charge. You let it into that fiber supply and it does its damage there, turning fluffy wooly wool to a constrained length of string. The trick is to learn to work with it... (continued)

04.02.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A bobbin on a spinning wheel, full of a mottled grey yarn, inexpertly spun.

Up at 3:30 today, because grief, fear, and rage wouldn't let me sleep. At that hour, they weren't a scream inside. Instead, more of a tickle. but that tickle meant sleep was done. I eventually ended up at my wheel, and finished filling a bobbin with woolen spun Rambouillet yarn. (continued)

04.02.2025 13:29 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

youtu.be/6_jlgBJSu8U I've got a podcast, and I released an episode today. I talk about the fiber arts, and how they are helping me to navigate my fear and grief to find what I can do to help.

29.01.2025 20:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today's act of resistance: meeting with a writing coach who works with autistic writers (I've self-identified) about working with her to get my fiber arts memoir about wool, mothering, and mental health written and published. In a time of silencing, I will write my heart out for others to read.

20.01.2025 19:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today's creative act of resistance: drafting a 1-minute statement for the school board meeting. Religious extremists from out of state are going to be there demanding the board ban access to any LGBTQIA+ content in schools. I'm arguing access to such content should be a core value of the district.

20.11.2024 22:47 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A fat Latinx woman stands in a park, one hand resting on a pink cane and one raised joyfully to the sky, as is her face. She is adorned with hand knits -- a yellow cardigan, red mitts, a teal hat, and a lighter teal scarf.

Joy is resistance.

15.11.2024 16:39 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honestly, I don't really trust folks who aren't scared right now. I'm scared. I was up in the wee hours this morning, and the thing that calmed me down enough to get a bit more sleep was spending 90 minutes winding my nutiden unspun yarn held double into these nice little balls.

14.11.2024 00:32 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0