I feel like I always think of solar punk as a macro thing where a lot has to change but there are still smaller wins we can implement, what have you been doing?
I feel like I always think of solar punk as a macro thing where a lot has to change but there are still smaller wins we can implement, what have you been doing?
‘Thread Repair’ is definitely less grandma-esque than ‘sewing’ or ‘needle and stitch’.
Some youtuber somewhere is probably recording an introduction,
‘Welcome to my thread repair lab. This is where we pull, push, and stretch fabric to the limit…’
It writes itself! Theres a whole youtube channel in this!
The need to de-centre women from traditionally female technologies, crafts and occupations in order to appeal and cater to men’s interests, is kinda upsetting though.
Yeah, interesting for me that you picked up the masculinity still.
In that comment I actually considered that because I had written something like ‘inject masculinity’ into it. But as I wrote, I thought its not just young men, but women as well, much like yourself. So I tried to de-masculine it and make it about dropping the old person connotations.
I suppose I’s not very successful in that. I think its the faux quote at the end that just reads so much like every male teenfluencer ever. 😆
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Yeah, fuck all the female dominated histories of all the various textile cultures around the world, someone on the internet told me it was men who probably did it first, and women obviously just copied them! So if men want to get into textiles again now they have every right to push out any reminder of women ever being involved!
Just to be clear, the above paragraph is sarcasm. Exasperated but unsurprised, sarcasm.
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