Havoc Sewing
This week I launched the Rage Against the [Sewing] Machine Club.
Although many of us have our rage inside, expressing it is deemed bad behavior. How are we putting our humanity in such a tiny box that only some emotions are valid? Rage, for me consist of cursing, screw everything attitude, possibly destruction in whatever capacity is safe for me and others. It about expressing ourselves freely, safely, without shaming.
There are systems that perpetuate all of our oppression. More often than before, I have been divesting and speaking out of things that just don’t sit right with me. Like patriarchy, capitalism, sectarism, imperialism, colonization, and all the other isms under the sun. All these isms are weaponized to create class warfare and it looks like we can all be at the bottom in a hierarchal system of domination.
I digress… the point with the state of the world many of us are little pissed off. Moving from pissed off at people and myself, to see that almost all personal issues are actually rooted systems and institutions that enables and encourage us to be violent and in turn we silence and shame each other. We are humans with diversified approach to living our lives and we got these narrow systems that box us into zombie consumers. We hold a spectrum of complicity depending on our position in this world. Unfortunately, we can not easily escape it. However, we can build conversations around it. Bring aware to it and create community and culture of care instead of competition.
That’s what I want Rage Against the [Sewing] Machine to be. A space of possibilities with direct intention of dismantling the system within through sewing/art. To create upcycle practices, to hold a space for creation, death, and rebirth. To be a member of a community that wants the same.
As a functioning community, we (the members) are still developing it. We are testing times, flow, skill set level, support systems and dynamics. And as a facilitator, I’m trying many things. My appreciation goes to so many people behind the scenes (Myisha T Hill & Talia Mole), the all-toes-in members and, honestly, even the people who treated me not so great.
We commune, we learn, we unlearn, we rage and we create. I think it’s a fucking cool space.
If this sounds like you, join the fucking club already and let’s rage on together. Rage Against the [Sewing] Machine.
You can see Myisha’s work on liberation here: CYP Events
I have coined Talia an activist, see her work here: Queering Motherhood
