The Auntie Sewing Squad guide to mask making, radical care, and racial justice / edited by Mai-Linh K. Hong, Chrissy Yee Lau, and Preeti Sharma ; with Kristina Wong & Rebecca Solnit.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]Description: xv, 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780520383999
- 0520383990
- 9780520384002
- 0520384008
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord -- Taxonomy of Auntie roles / Audrey Chan -- We go down sewing / the Editors and Valerie Soe -- Auntie Sewing Squad map / Audrey Chan -- Auntie Sewing Squad core values : transparency + passion + humor + kindness / Amy Tofte and Kristina Wong -- Auntie Sewing Squad bingo / Alina Wong and Heather Lou -- Ode to spreadsheet of glory / Laura Karlin -- Finding fabric / Candace Kim and Sharon McNary -- Mary Poppins box of supplies / Laurie Bernadel -- Moment of joy / Chey and Beatrice Townsend -- Recipe for vegan kimchee / Grace Yoo -- Sewing as care work / Preeti Sharma -- Taxonomy of Auntie care / Audrey Chan -- Evolution of Auntie care / Gayle Isa -- Auntie Sewing Squad care-van / Duyen Tran -- How to sew masks for fun and no profit in an apocalypse / Dana Leahy -- Mask ties and earloops and nose pieces / Belinda Younis -- Bread, roses, and face masks / Ellen Gavin -- Home sweatshop / Laura McSharry -- Recipe for ube halaya / Irene Tayag Laut -- Sewing with intent / Chrissy Yee Lau -- Behind the wheel of a large automobile full of PPE / Badly Licked Bear -- Badly Licked Bear van -- Dreaming of my ancestors : sewing a network of protection across La Frontera / Jessica Arana -- Abuela's facultad / Jessica Arana -- Solidarity praxis / Lauretta Kanahoa Masters -- Monks robe fabric / Melinda Creps -- It's in your blood : warrior alliances in the time of corona / Constance Parng -- Recipe for tsukemono mac salad / Dave Vindiola -- ASS Facebook feed -- Sewing as refuge / Mai-Linh K. Hong -- Mending time : a movement score / Rebecca Pappas -- Mask butterfly and stencil rose / Jacqueline Bell Johnson -- Rebirth / Māhealani Flournoy -- Three generations / Joni Byun -- Sewing through a pan(dem)ic / Hellen Lee -- How to measure, selfie / Sanae Robinson Guerin -- Recipe for nourishing salve / Laura Karlin -- Sewing as insurrection / Rebecca Solnit -- ASS quilt / Melissa Quilter -- Science is the light on the sewing machine / Karl Haro von Mogel, PhD -- My dad sewing / Lisa Prostak -- Querida abuelita Rafaelita / Lorena Madrigal -- Sewing machine / Lorena Madriga -- Treasuring mom / Joy Park-Thomas -- Recipe for Earl's girl poundcake / Diana Williams -- Teaching sewing / Grace Yoo -- The ASS child labor kids sewing camp / Gina Rivera -- To the rescue / Dominic and Teena Apeles -- Technical assistance Auntie / Vibrina Coronado -- Connecting my family's 100-year herstory / Jenni "Emiko" Kuida -- Sewing with mom / Winnie Fong -- Sewing for the next generation / Sylvia Kwon -- A day in the life of Westside Hub / Gwennie Wong and Leilani and Ova Chan -- Recipe for chocolate shortbread hearts / Melissa Quilter -- we (can) do it / Elena Dahl -- Coda : when finding pleasure is survival / the Editors -- Timeline -- ASS sewing patterns / Mai-Linh K. Hong and Chey Townsend.
"The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice is a community manifesto of essays, poems, recipes, and art describing people who stepped up in the absence of government leadership. In March 2020, when the US government failed to provide personal protective equipment in the face of COVID-19, the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged to meet a critical need--sewing masks--and to critique the US government failure to protect the public's health. Led primarily by Asian American women and other women of color, including some who learned to sew from refugee mothers and grandmothers working in sweatshops, the Auntie Sewing Squad openly tells a history of exploited immigrant labor, while turning it on its head. The Auntie Sewing Squad became a cadre of dispersed mask-sewers who nimbly funneled masks to asylum seekers, indigenous communities, incarcerated people, and many others in need of protection. Sewing masks became a way not only to meet a public health need, but also to come together in mutual aid and to support cross-racial solidarity and political action in a moment of social upheaval"-- Provided by publisher