With gorgeous cover art, as always, by @thetolerantweft.bsky.social
tabitha
@thetolerantweft.bsky.social
socialist tapestry artist, co-chair Chattanooga DSA 🌹 https://linktr.ee/Tabithaarnold
Forget gift guides, why don’t we just share our favorite living, radical artists? (quilt by Daryl Meador)
A List of Labor Artists
I’m not the only one making work about unions and socialism. These are some of my favorites.
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Drew a cool Buddhist statue at the Detroit Institute of Art today
I’m looking to talk to a worker who was involved in the union effort at MEDIEVAL TIMES!!! can you guys help me by reposting this until someone sees it?
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Artists at Work
My week at Medieval Times and a union movie set.
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my whole life has really been a long, slow upward grade from the day I pissed myself in the Apple Store at age 11. I wish everyone could experience the joy and clarity of such a clearly defined rock bottom
Elated to see that @mariabamford.bsky.social liked my photo of my tapestry - Maria, I am a big fan and really appreciate how you talk about labor as an artist! I’m excited to see your show in Chattanooga in the spring!
Flying this week? Be like @thetolerantweft.bsky.social and tell your UNION Flight Attendants you support them!
wearing my AFA pin on the flight
baristas will investigate each other’s crushtomers through a more sophisticated intelligence system than the CIA could dream of
there are not enough genuine freaks on this website. we need our court jesters
DC dating app report: there are one million men with “leftist” in bio and then their job is Investment Portfolio Manager For The Devil Himself
a detail at the top of my tapestry that I’m not sure anyone has noticed so far… “Chattanooga Halleluja” spelled out in the windows as a reference to YGTUT, one of several great rappers to come out of Chattanooga in the last decade.
"make more money with this one weird trick" except it's real this time
over the summer I embroidered this giant tapestry about mill towns and textile strikes. now I’m working on another one about streetcar drivers and their militant labor struggle in the early 20th century!
guys I hate to say it, but this place is officially cooked… I’m starting a new account on X (the everything app)
our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
This is so funny. My man is on that "oooh no!!" shit
"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
I wrote about my new cafe job and the labor movement in coffee.
Cafe Workers United
On labor and coffee.
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it’s so funny that the dogshit logo and rebrand are the actual last straw for everyone