“I have come back to the South. No one can really turn his back on the place of his birth, even though he may not like conditions of life in many respects. You can’t help the South without loving it, and you cannot love the South without helping it.”
Thank you for this!!! Beautifully weaves together so, so much. It has given me much to think about re: family history, community, labor, textiles, place, home, joy, struggle, meaning... really incredible. Your synthesis of your physical (art)work and your ethics and values is super inspiring. I am burning with ideas!
Great piece. Have you ever read much about Claude Williams and Owen Whitfield? Gospel of the Working Class by Gellman and Roll does a great job chronicling the overlap between religion and socialism during the New Deal Era south. Both Williams and Whitfield were preachers who struggled alongside unions and left wing parties for worker power, anti-racism, and anti-fascism.
Thank you for this!!! Beautifully weaves together so, so much. It has given me much to think about re: family history, community, labor, textiles, place, home, joy, struggle, meaning... really incredible. Your synthesis of your physical (art)work and your ethics and values is super inspiring. I am burning with ideas!
Great piece. Have you ever read much about Claude Williams and Owen Whitfield? Gospel of the Working Class by Gellman and Roll does a great job chronicling the overlap between religion and socialism during the New Deal Era south. Both Williams and Whitfield were preachers who struggled alongside unions and left wing parties for worker power, anti-racism, and anti-fascism.