Episode 229: Every community needs a Radical Sewing Club, with Scout Quiquivix
How can we do good things in difficult times? The seemingly small things we do as individuals are actually really radical, impactful, and important. And if we do these good things with members of our community, they become even more powerful. In this week's episode, Scout of Radical Sewing Club shows us how mending and sewing are radical political acts. They will will share how we can start our own mending club in our own community!
We will be talking about important things like venue, cost, materials, and even how a typical Radical Sewing Club evening plays out.
Along the way we are going to talk about lots of other important things, including the following questions:
- Has capitalism taken away sources of joy for us (only to try to replace it all with shopping)? How do we get those back?
- Why is the lack of third spaces an issue that impacts people of all ages?
- Why is building community sometimes as simple as knowing your neighbors? And how has capitalism made that more difficult?
- Why is it actually super radical to repair fast fashion?
- And how many people do we really need to push back and make serious change in this world?
We’ll also touch on the cows that are Amanda's neighbors and why we have jeans trauma thanks to the 00s.
Also: Amanda shares how protests are making her feel optimistic.
Hang out with Scout in Pomona, CA on the Radical Sewing Club World Tour! Get tickets here.
Read about Scout and Radical Sewing Club in the LA Times: "For $5, Radical Sewing Club teaches you to mend clothes like an anticapitalist," by Lina Abascal
Many more links:
Worldwide Mending Clubs List by Danielle of Front Porch Threads
"The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world," David Robson, BBC.
50501 Movement
Indivisible
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