The project involves stenciling and stitching 180 names per panel. I estimate it takes me about 75 hours to complete, so it's definitely a time commitment, but some folks share the stitching of a panel if time/capacity is a factor. I'm happy to answer questions for anyone interested! 🧵🗣️

I see more and more #artivism & #craftivism folks on here so I'm resharing a collaborative memorial project I'm working on that warmly welcomes more people to join us. Email Mary Evers at: say.their.names.gaza@gmail.com or see Instagram @ stitch.their.names.together #SayTheirNames 🧵🗣️

In a world that reduces profound loss to mere statistics and inaccurate numbers, this embroidery project has been a concrete way to affirm the humanity and individuality of every person in Gaza whose life was so brutally stolen and desecrated.

Deborah Rose@deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud to have two embroidered pieces included in the "Stitch Their Names Together" exhibit as part of Féile an Phobail (Féile Belfast), August 1-3. tinyurl.com/5n6wtrak #Craftivism #Embroidery #FreePalestine #SpéirGhorm 🇵🇸 🇮🇪

Mary Evers launched the “Stitch Their Names Together” project in March 2024. Volunteer embroiderers from across the world joined, and one year later they have stitched the names of 30,000 people killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. #gaza

The “Stitch Their Names Together” memorial project was a form of pushback against the minimized & static death toll figures. Months after we had already stitched 30,000 names we were still seeing that figure reported by the media. Absolute moral bankruptcy all round.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The ongoing project needs stitchers for multiple panels: MORE NAMES OF GAZA MARTYRS: Sadly, we have another 12,000+ names to commemorate. WEST BANK We will stitch the names of the martyrs killed in The West Bank by the occupying forces and settler groups since October 2023.

Deborah Rose@deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 4d ago

Stitch Their Names Together is reopening their memorial embroidery project 50,000 people murdered in genocide have been honoured at this point, but the killing continues amidst a nonexistent ‘ceasefire’ To stitch a panel: send your details to say.their.names.gaza@gmail.com tinyurl.com/26nar2xf

Stitch Their Names Together is reopening their memorial embroidery project 50,000 people murdered in genocide have been honoured at this point, but the killing continues amidst a nonexistent ‘ceasefire’ To stitch a panel: send your details to say.their.names.gaza@gmail.com tinyurl.com/26nar2xf

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This activist used embroidery to memorialize tens of thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza. Mary Evers launched the “Stitch Their Names Together” project in March 2024. Volunteer embroiderers fro...

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“What are you reading?” is not small talk. It is an identity audit. One title and suddenly we know whether you’re optimistic, furious, romantically deluded, researching something alarmingly specific or avoiding the book you said you were going to read. Go on then. What are you reading?

When your library holds become available on the same day and they’re all so good and you’re torn on where to start and just have to read them all right now right now #BookSky

Love this framing @tressiemcphd.bsky.social data politics doesn’t happen without data economics. Central to this must also be acknowledging the immorality of personal data as a market/good. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

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It will depress you! Sorry about that but it’s kind of my jam. I selected well-written books, some of them are even wryly funny at times — if you come from a culture with macabre humor. Still, the issue is big, complex, and scary. All the more reason for us to face it together.

John Robinson@jrobin.bsky.social · 3w ago

A reading list that I know will depress me, but one that also seems vital to understand (and fight this version of) the future. From the brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

"Mildred Pitts Walter, a Los Angeles schoolteacher who grew up in the Jim Crow South and wrote award-winning children’s books focusing on Black characters, filling a void in her students’ reading material, died on May 19 in Redwood City, Calif. She was 103." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...

Mildred Pitts Walter, Author of Books for Black Children, Dies at 103 (Gift Article)

Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.

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Regardless of animal agriculture’s scientifically proven impact on climate change, my position is that nobody deserves to be exploited, caged, used, harmed or killed just because they happen to exist in a different body than I do. Baseline respect for all living beings.

Deborah Rose@deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 3w ago

Responses to the organic eggs being worse for climate change article hurts my heart & my head. Framing the debate in consumerist language, so many intelligent & otherwise justice oriented leftists completely ignore the fact that animals are not objects, not products, but sentient living beings 💔

Responses to the organic eggs being worse for climate change article hurts my heart & my head. Framing the debate in consumerist language, so many intelligent & otherwise justice oriented leftists completely ignore the fact that animals are not objects, not products, but sentient living beings 💔

I know I live under a rock but I hadn’t heard anything about Hansard & women till today, so I’m trying to wrap my head around that and find information but can’t seem to find anything (looks like there’s something on Reddit but for some reason the website/app won’t open here in France).

I’m so sad to hear about Glen Hansard. He was one of a kind. What I appreciated about him most of all was his collaborative spirit, he was a community builder and was always bringing people together. Such a loss 💔 youtu.be/MXdGRjn1oWo?...

Glen Hansard & Friends : The Auld Triangle (HD) Live Royal Albert Hall 2014 #shaymcn

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There's an organic exceptionalism at work: I'm a good consumer because I eat only organic eggs / pasture-fed meat etc. In many cases these have a higher, sometimes MUCH higher, environmental impact. The worst of all farm products are organic beef and lamb. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The most damaging farm products? Organic, pasture-fed beef and lamb

Analysis: You may be amazed by that answer, but the area of land used for grazing is vast compared with the meat and milk produced

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It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens

Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests

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There are quite a few mail-order homes in Portland & probably more to be identified. @multcolib.bsky.social offers library cardholders access to historical maps w/ building details (1867-1970), a great research resource I use writing my novel set in PDX www.preservationartisans.org/2019/07/16/m...

Mail-Order Houses in Portland Oregon - Preservation Artisans Guild

Could your early-20th century home possibly have been selected from a catalog and purchased by mail? All about mail-order houses from Sears, etc.

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Deborah Rose@deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 4w ago

Post Office nerd that I am, one of my favorite things about Le Guin’s home is that it was built using a 19th-century mail-order blueprint kit from a Sears & Roebuck catalog 📬

Post Office nerd that I am, one of my favorite things about Le Guin’s home is that it was built using a 19th-century mail-order blueprint kit from a Sears & Roebuck catalog 📬

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 4w ago

The Le Guin house in northwest Portland has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

It's about accents and authenticity and a lot more. I remember reading it when it was published— before I learned that monolingualism is the exception. free link: archive.ph/rZYtm/again?... Coincidentally, I'm reading "Dientes Blancos".

Deborah Rose@deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 4w ago

Zadie Smith’s ‘Speaking in Tongues’ is a fantastic essay on the subject of accents. “Voice adaptation is still the original British sin. Monitoring and exposing such citizens is a national pastime, as popular as sex scandals and libel cases.” www.nybooks.com/articles/200...

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For my first “well, akshually…” moment on here, I recommend Bike Lanes are White Lanes, a pro-bicycling study of 3 U.S. cities (Milwaukee, Portland & Minneapolis) which examines how urban bicycling advocacy is trailed by systemic issues of racism, classism, and displacement tinyurl.com/4furwa4w

Bike Lanes Are White Lanes - Nebraska Press

The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicy...

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Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · last mo.

DEI bike lanes…

Zadie Smith’s ‘Speaking in Tongues’ is a fantastic essay on the subject of accents. “Voice adaptation is still the original British sin. Monitoring and exposing such citizens is a national pastime, as popular as sex scandals and libel cases.” www.nybooks.com/articles/200...

Speaking in Tongues | Zadie Smith

The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1. Hello. This voice I speak with these days, this English

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Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4w ago

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

Discover the boglands of Seamus Heaney. Join a special tour of Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exploring how the bog shaped Heaney’s poetry—from the personal to the political—with readings from his work. 📅 18 & 25 July, 11.30am: Book: https://ow.ly/2aCw50ZiC32

Discover the Boglands | Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

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At the end of the month, I'll be piloting a Slow Trad Session in Cork City. Dust off your instruments and we'll all learn a slow air together in a welcoming environment! Friday July 31st, 7pm-ish; Quay Co-op, all welcome, pay-what-you-can. #spéirghorm #ireland

Feel this so much

For me the most impactful books were those first experiences as a young lone reader. This story mirrored mine in terms of being the elder sister of a middle brother & younger sister dealing with our own particular struggle w/ chaos & seeking safety. It helped me understand my life & feel less alone.

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · last mo.

I have a PDF of this book if anyone wants to learn more about blackness in Germany under the Nazis.

Deborah Rose@deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · last mo.

I searched her name in Libby and this came up. It draws on interviews with Black survivors of Nazi concentration camps but it’s not available to check out with my library so I can’t check to see what extent Snow is discussed in the book. www.routledge.com/Hitlers-Blac...

Introducing Mad Mail — a mutual aid project by and for Mad folks & psychiatric survivors! 🎨 you get cool art each month 🫂 Mad and Disabled are supported with direct funds Learn more and sign up for $10/month: projectlets.org/mad-mail