Month: February 2025

More Bags!

Lately I’ve been making grocery-size bags with the bottom made of a layer of a rigid mesh sewed inside the canvas, which you can’t see because of the lining. I just finished this one (I think I will keep it for myself!) But if you want one I offer these two at the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center online auction!

Do Me a Favor and State Your Pronouns

In the space of the first two weeks of the Trump regime, they have managed to eliminate DEI not only across government agencies, but also on corporations. Any mention of the existence of trans and non-binary people have been removed from official documents, and everyone was surprised to see LGBTQI+ suddenly was truncated to LGB (hint: some wealthy donors are gay). We ceased to exist. I’m not too worried… They’re wrecking so much that they are going to provoke much bigger crises. I’m actually relieved that they’re erasing us, it won’t be on the minds of tourists improvising as gender police. It was thanks to DEI trainings that I started using They/Them or She/Her pronouns (this regime also put an end to all DEI efforts and even blame DEI for causing plane collisions – it’s code for saying they only want white men everywhere, preferably the ones without a fully developed frontal lobe, but I digress). I don’t say “She/Her” alone, because in reality I am afraid of a backlash. I concede that I make …