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🧵📢The #antiracistcrafting Blanket Project has brought together a group of ppl from around the world to work as a community to help 2 charities (Project Okra in the US & The African Rainbow Family in the UK). This is gonna be your updates thread, so hold on to your butts. 1/
We've settled on a beautiful pattern. It's a granny square that suits all skill levels of crocheters. We've got our own color scheme, so you'll have to wait and see what we make! #antiracistcrafting 2/ 
After we gather all the squares, I'll stitch them together. Just imagine a project where each granny square is created w/ love by someone who cares abt justice, is being creative &taking back their time from yt supremacy & giving to marginalized folks in need. #antiracistcrafting
Some ppl are used to giving, &something in the psyche tells us (espec. BIWOC), we should feel guilty for looking after us. It's necessary tho. We're often at the forefront of racial/social justice battles. Anyway I crocheted my 1st ever #antiracistcrafting gift for me, a sweater.
Audre Lorde was not kidding when she said explained how self care is an act of warfare and resistance. Ww often misinterpret her words to just mean "spoil yourself" & go on vacay or the spa regularly. Lorde understood how Black women are stretched & how racial injustice affects
our mental health and wellbeing. Self care involves taking time to recharge to go back to battle. It serves a purpose other than pampering for the sake of pampering. It is necessary bc we are doing "the work" & ppl lean on us constantly. I mean constantly.
