Francesca Olsen

Massachusetts, winter 2026. March 8. Saw the ground today finally.

Love this one.

In January, we went inside the Dilley detention center. Children shared letters describing the anguish of being ripped from their lives: propub.li/4cUHm8L

After publishing that story, we learned about Edison, a 13-year-old from Chicago detained for 2+ months. Listen to Edison in his own words 👇

Here’s meta AI helpfully suggesting I turn a photo of myself the day I finished taxol chemo, one of the worst events of my life, into a cute anime pic. Anyway the chemo didn’t work and I’m stage 4 now. Thanks for reminding me 😍😍😍

If the March snow is dragging you down, you’re REALLY not gonna like the May snow.

I want to start a club of women with spinal fusion surgery and call it “sisters of the rod”

A paper pieced quilt that says “don’t forget you work for us” in blue with red stars next to the words “you” and “us”

Hot off the angry lady machine

My favorite person drew this picture of us holding hands with crowns on 😭

Caught a Stromboli in midair at the big y

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

NEW: How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention

9-year-old Maria Antonia begged her mom to take her to the park’s annual Halloween celebration. But as soon as she arrived at Miami International Airport, everything started going wrong.

I am so tired of wearing boots. I want to wear my colorful sneakers. Chunky sandals. Knockoff plastic Birkenstocks. Horsebit loafers. Those adidas sandals that massage your feet.

My studio intern started today and I really like her 🥹 also I somehow got a studio intern

Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the SuperBowl. Not a single white person or English translation at the Super Bowl. This isn’t White enough for me. Cant even watch a Super Bowl anymore because immigrants have literally ruined everything.

Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin

I’m Laura Ingalls Wild’n out in this snowstorm

I do not conflate authority with respect.

Doing a lot of sowing right now. No big deal but probably gonna be reaping soon

Everyone who wants to buy a big truck should have to take a spatial awareness test. Stop driving in the middle of the road bc you’re too nervous of your own dang truck.

256 people have signed up for my “essentials of digital marketing” workshop via Assets for Artists next week. 256!!!! Sign of the times for sure…looking forward to sharing my marketing predictions for 2026 and talking about how to manage promoting your work in a super precedented but very ugly time

Spiderposting

VA chaplains in Mass. told no public prayers mentioning nurses, Alex Pretti The Washington Post has reported that VA officials in Washington also initially blocked Minneapolis hospital employees from holding a memorial for Pretti, though that decision was later reversed.

Freedom is telling veterans what they can and cannot pray for www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

There is no drug like something being not as bad as you thought it was going to be.

My spider is molting and I’m so happy about it

Francesca’s design wall, which is layered in quilt projects, as well as her studio table in the foreground, which is cluttered with fabric scraps.

POV you have too much going on

A page from Dr Seuss’ One Fish two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish showing a little girl brushing a tiny mammal with lots of blue hair

My tiny mammal (fluffy dog)

Around every week I tell him “all girls who like to brush and comb should have a pet like this at home!”

My body right now: you may have 15 minutes of activity for every 45 minutes of rest.

Stage 4 breast cancer, age 39, mom of four year old. We are SO CLOSE to multiple cancer vaccines. I need this to happen asap. I pray it happens early enough I can access it.

In the last months, because I have a jumping spider, I have seen two different kinds of feeder worms turn into two different kinds of beetles. So I know that I can do it too

My aunt on my grandfather: "He was the best dad a girl could ever have! He did have a drinking problem but it wasn’t an everyday thing. An occasional bender I guess you’d call it."

I don’t even work full time bro what is this