Feb 18, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
In this episode of Stitch Please, host Lisa Wolfork tackles a critical conversation about anti-fascism, anti-racism, and anti-blackness within progressive craft communities. Prompted by her experience…
And as I say every other week, this is a very special episode because actually.
That trip to Reddit was an adventure where I felt at almost any time I could have been hate-crimed.
Because as I was scrolling and reading and learning about people's feedback and responses to this Norwegian red hat of resistance, I found a post that had been prompted by a Black woman blogger.
A black woman maker had said that she found the red hat to be performative and she found it to be virtue signaling.
And of course, me being a nerd, I read every single one, every single one, looking, reading, oh, that's interesting.
Who? Who was the person they were asking? Who was the person that didn't like the hat? Who was the person that said it was performative? Who was the person that said it was virtue signaling? And then they put her name in there, which is exactly how I find her when I go to Instagram.
Ultimately, a few days later, I saw that her name had been removed, but not after being on that post for 19 days.
And what it reminded me of was in some ways the exact reasons I ended up creating Black Women's Stitch.
That even in spaces that are meant to be progressive, that are meant to be for women, the liberation of all.
We find that the opinions of Black women are unwelcome unless we are celebrating what is already being done.
And as I say every other week, this is a very special episode because actually.
That trip to Reddit was an adventure where I felt at almost any time I could have been hate-crimed.
Because as I was scrolling and reading and learning about people's feedback and responses to this Norwegian red hat of resistance, I found a post that had been prompted by a Black woman blogger.
A black woman maker had said that she found the red hat to be performative and she found it to be virtue signaling.
And of course, me being a nerd, I read every single one, every single one, looking, reading, oh, that's interesting.
Who? Who was the person they were asking? Who was the person that didn't like the hat? Who was the person that said it was performative? Who was the person that said it was virtue signaling? And then they put her name in there, which is exactly how I find her when I go to Instagram.
Ultimately, a few days later, I saw that her name had been removed, but not after being on that post for 19 days.
And what it reminded me of was in some ways the exact reasons I ended up creating Black Women's Stitch.
That even in spaces that are meant to be progressive, that are meant to be for women, the liberation of all.
We find that the opinions of Black women are unwelcome unless we are celebrating what is already being done.
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