UID:
almahu_9949258474802882
Format:
1 online resource (288 p.)
ISBN:
9780520384019
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9783110754001
Content:
The rise of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who provide free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, when the US government failed to provide personal protective gear during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged. Founded by performance artist Kristina Wong, the mutual-aid group sewed face masks with a bold social justice mission: to protect the most vulnerable and most neglected. Written and edited by Aunties themselves, The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice tells a powerful story. As the pandemic unfolded, hate crimes against Asian Americans spiked. In this climate of fear and despair, a team of mostly Asian American women using the familial label ";Auntie"; formed online, gathered momentum, and sewed masks at home by the thousands. The Aunties nimbly funneled masks to asylum seekers, Indigenous communities, incarcerated people, farmworkers, and others disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. When anti-lockdown agitators descended on state capitals-and, eventually, the US Capitol-the Aunties dug in. And as the nation erupted in rebellion over police violence against Black people, the Aunties supported and supplied Black Lives Matter protesters and organizations serving Black communities. Providing hundreds of thousands of homemade masks met an urgent public health need and expressed solidarity, care, and political action in a moment of social upheaval. The Auntie Sewing Squad is a quirky, fast-moving, and adaptive mutual-aid group that showed up to meet a critical need. Led primarily by women of color, the group includes some who learned to sew from mothers and grandmothers working for sweatshops or as a survival skill passed down by refugee relatives. The Auntie Sewing Squad speaks back to the history of exploited immigrant labor as it enacts an intersectional commitment to public health for all. This collection of essays and ephemera is a community document of the labor and care of the Auntie Sewing Squad.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Preface --
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Taxonomy of Auntie Roles --
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Introduction --
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We Go Down Sewing --
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Auntie Sewing Squad Map --
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Auntie Sewing Squad Core Values: Transparency + Passion + Humor + Kindness --
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Auntie Sewing Squad Bingo --
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Ode to the Spreadsheet of Glory --
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A Mary Poppins Box of Supplies --
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Finding Fabric --
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Recipe for Vegan Kimchee --
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Moment of Joy --
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Labor --
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Sewing as Care Work --
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Taxonomy of Auntie Care --
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The Evolution of Auntie Care --
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Auntie Sewing Squad Care-Van --
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How to Sew Masks for Fun and No Profit in the Apocalypse --
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Mask Ties and Earloops and Nose Pieces --
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Bread, Roses, and Face Masks --
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Home Sweatshop --
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Recipe for Ube Halaya --
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Solidarity --
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Sewing with Intent --
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Behind the Wheel of a Large Automobile Full of PPE --
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Badly Licked Bear Relief Van --
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Dreaming of My Ancestors: --
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Abuela's Facultad --
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Solidarity Praxis --
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Monk Fabric --
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It's in Your Blood: --
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Three Generations --
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Recipe for Tsukemono Pasta Salad --
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A Day in OUR Virtual Life --
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Introduction --
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Survival --
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Sewing as Refuge --
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Mending Time: --
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Mask Butterfly and Stencil Rose --
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Rebirth --
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Sewing through a Pan(dem)ic --
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How to Measure, Selfie --
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Recipe for Nourishing Salve --
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Mutual Aid --
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Sewing the Pieces Back Together --
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ASS Quilt --
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Science Is the Light on the Sewing Machine --
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My Dad Sewing --
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Querida Abuelita Rafaelita --
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Sewing Machine --
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Treasuring Mom --
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Recipe for Earl's Girl Pound Cake --
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Posterity --
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Teaching Sewing, Teaching Care --
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The Auntie Sewing Squad Kids Sewing Camp --
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To the Rescue --
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Technical Assistance Auntie --
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Connecting My Family's One-Hundred-Year Herstory --
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Sewing with Mom --
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Sewing for the Next Generation --
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A Day in the Life of Westside Hub --
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Recipe for Chocolate Shortbread Hearts --
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We (can) do it --
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Coda --
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Timeline --
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Auntie Sewing Squad Mask Sewing Patterns --
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Contributors --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753776
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754124
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753899
In:
University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110739152
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520384019
URL:
Co-access DOI click Walter de Gruyter
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780520384019
