A business woman with auburn hair and light skin standing in front of an academic poster located in a conference center.

Celebrating 38 trips around the sun with a poster session 🤓📚

Today is for 16 year old me 🎓

Thank you!!

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Career goal achieved:

I was just invited to join a State Arts Commission's grant advisory board to help fund impactful community programs.

I got into a Fieldwork 101 program this summer that will train me to document folk traditions all over the world 🤩

I'm disappointed that this is my last class in the program because it diminishes the experience overall.

I'm also grateful that this class is the exception, not the rule. The program gives me hope that people are learning more about the benefits of diversity than the structures of division.

The instructor for my current class has some hot takes that have made it into the test as hard facts. Climate denial, Christian nationalism, and more.

The blatant bias makes it harder to take the material seriously, and I trust the content much less than I did at the start of the term.

📣‼️ The handmaidens at 👇🏽

#NoKings Nashville protest

holding names 📃 in the

Epstein files ‼️📣 ✊🏽

A crowd of people gathered to protest the American government in Huntsville, AL.

My view from today's #NoKings rally in Huntsville, AL. 🖖🏻

One of my students is dealing with Parkinsons, and I would like to find some solutions that make crochet more accessible for them.

Does anyone here have recommendations for grips or hook brands that work well for people with tremors? I'm not against DIY options, either!

Just checked into the coziest cabin for an art retreat with South Arts! Two days making art in the Kentucky Mountains is going to be incredible.

At the mechanic today, watching the managers flip between game shows and war coverage on the lobby television.

Just turn it off! We're all on our phones, anyway. Let us get our cars fixed in peace 😌

An art gallery filled with colorful knit and crochet sculptures.

My solo show 'String Theory' opens at the Gadsden Museum of Art on Friday!

If you're in North Alabama, I'd love to see you there 🖖🏻

It's finals week, so everyone in my econ class is publishing their required discussion posts before the deadline.

I now wholeheartedly believe that AI is destroying our ability to communicate.

Pray for my instructor, y'all

A white woman with brown hair presenting her new forearm tattoo. The tattoo is a pixelated pyramid sitting in front of the Earth from the 1996 video game Civilization Two.

Permanent sticker acquired!

This is the desktop icon from Civilization 2 - the game that got me interested in global trade 🌎🖖🏻

A padded black armrest covered with transparent blue tape sitting on a wood and tile floor.

Time for some tattoo therapy ✒️

The interview went well (from my side), and our conversation ended on a positive note. There's no guarantee on anything, but I'll know one way or the other sometime in March 🤞🏻

Going through the house, I kept thinking, "How did this all survive 4 kids?!?" Thanks for that info! 😂

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My internal clock, starting 12 hours before any important event

Lies and partisan rhetoric from my senator this morning

Vote them out ✊🏻🔥🧊

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One week until the PhD interview!

A wood-paneled study with built-in shelves, corner desk facing floor to ceiling windows, and a yellow arm chair with ottoman.

A wood paneled room with a built in desk featuring hand-woven textiles and skeins of yarn.

Front view of a wood and brick Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A side view of a wood and brick Usonian home built by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Took a day trip to Florence, AL to stop by the Rosenbaum house, the first Usonian home built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939.

I can understand why the family stayed there for 60 years. It's cool to have such an amazing example of design history so close to home!

Front view of a long coat made from a recycled red, white, and blue quilt.

Back view of a long coat made from a discarded red, white, and blue quilt. It is embroidered with early American cars and features the words, "domestic terrorist" in unbleached cotton at mid-back.

Detail of a red white and blue quilted jacket embroidered with the words, "domestic terrorist" in unbleached cotton on a red strip.

Detail of a white quilt square pocket on the interior of a long coat embroidered in red with the words, "Made for you with love by a fucking bitch"

Ice Melt Bog Jacket 🧊🔥🧥

Made from a discarded quilt and cotton thread. Guaranteed to keep you warm on long revolutionary nights 🖖🏻

Late night tonight, but I made great progress on the presentation for my interview.

Glad I get to start a weekend filled with good art and better people 📚🎨🖖🏻

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No context needed

#generalstrike

The sleeve and back side portion of an in-progress crochet sweater made to look like a butterfly wing in light blue, yellow with small multicolored spots along the bottom border.

Reached row 92 before the weather got the best of me this weekend!

It's moving at a brisk pace of 5 rows per hour. The fabric is beautiful, and I can't wait to see how it drapes when finished.

My PhD interview happens in 2 weeks ~

If anyone has insight on what to expect from a candidacy interview in the UK, I would love to hear from you!

This Day in Labor History: January 18, 1913. Teachers in New York City held the first meeting of what would become the Teachers League in New York. This would spur the creation of the American Federation of Teachers a few years later and moved forward American teacher unionism significantly!!!

The sleeve portion of an in-progress crochet sweater made in the style of a butterfly wing with a light blue background, large golden yellow spots throughout the fabric, and colorful spots along the lower border.

Putting the work to bed for the night with 62 rows complete 🧶

I'm making slow and steady progress, and it's starting to look much more like a butterfly wing. I have to take lots of brain breaks though. Each row is divided across three pages and the stitch count in each spot also changes each row 🫠🙃

We can't hope to motivate effective action when we use the wrong tools at the wrong time. I wish local organizers would learn that.

I'm proud of my community for showing up for ICE victims, even though it ended awkwardly. Here's hoping we find the collective courage to create real change 🙏🏻