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Hey, a second post in the same month (barely) Go Me!
I’ve done two or three major resist-y things since last post: First, I participated in the Knoxville voter canvass that Swing Left Knoxville will be doing on a regular basis to try and flip one of the State Legislature seats blue. I gave up a bit early but so did everybody else; it was like 25 degrees F and snowing, which is very cold for this area.
And second (and possibly third), I drove out to North Carolina and did a couple of things. I carried the Swing Left banner in the Winston-Salem Women’s March, which turned out to be the reason the Swing Left banner was present at all, since pretty much everyone in the local group was either marching with some other bunch with whom they had closer ties—usually already carrying a sign that they had made—or was sick or had work obligations that kept them away.
I had to hunt around to find people to help me because you need at least three people to carry this thing, but eventually fell in with a group of enthusiastic young people who thought Swing Left was a good cause and agreed to help. The talks before were good, and largely given by women of color, from a group of young local poets to a woman who (given the things she had participated in) must have been nearly 100 years old. There was a big emphasis on voting and registering to vote and there was a table present where people could register or update their registration.
Sunday of that weekend I participated in Swing Left’s voter canvass, this time in an area near a historically black college. My team of two knocked on about 30 doors and got 6 pledges to vote and registered 3 people and left a 4th form with someone who was too busy to register at the time. We were working at two different locations this time and got two new canvassers at each, so I’m hopeful that the effort is building up steam.
If you would like to join Swing Left, you can find a local branch here at https://swingleft.org/
In other news I have been spending too much time sitting around poking the internet and it is making me depressed. I’m thinking I need to limit my internet time. I spent yesterday evening knitting another RESIST headband / hatband instead of watching the State of the Union, because the president’s word is worthless so it doesn’t matter what he says. This time I knit a lot of the headband in 2 x 2 rib with stockinette sections at the front and back for the writing. I was hoping this would make it less likely to curl up in unbecoming ways, and that seems to be working. I’m a couple of rows away from casting off and starting on the duplicate stitch.
In the process it occurred to me to look up how old knitting is, and thus ended up poking around on nailbinding (or Nålbinding) sites, looking at the things people can make with it. Knitting is more efficient but nailbinding is pretty cool looking; if I were still in the SCA I would be seriously interested.
And second (and possibly third), I drove out to North Carolina and did a couple of things. I carried the Swing Left banner in the Winston-Salem Women’s March, which turned out to be the reason the Swing Left banner was present at all, since pretty much everyone in the local group was either marching with some other bunch with whom they had closer ties—usually already carrying a sign that they had made—or was sick or had work obligations that kept them away.
I had to hunt around to find people to help me because you need at least three people to carry this thing, but eventually fell in with a group of enthusiastic young people who thought Swing Left was a good cause and agreed to help. The talks before were good, and largely given by women of color, from a group of young local poets to a woman who (given the things she had participated in) must have been nearly 100 years old. There was a big emphasis on voting and registering to vote and there was a table present where people could register or update their registration.
Sunday of that weekend I participated in Swing Left’s voter canvass, this time in an area near a historically black college. My team of two knocked on about 30 doors and got 6 pledges to vote and registered 3 people and left a 4th form with someone who was too busy to register at the time. We were working at two different locations this time and got two new canvassers at each, so I’m hopeful that the effort is building up steam.
If you would like to join Swing Left, you can find a local branch here at https://swingleft.org/
In other news I have been spending too much time sitting around poking the internet and it is making me depressed. I’m thinking I need to limit my internet time. I spent yesterday evening knitting another RESIST headband / hatband instead of watching the State of the Union, because the president’s word is worthless so it doesn’t matter what he says. This time I knit a lot of the headband in 2 x 2 rib with stockinette sections at the front and back for the writing. I was hoping this would make it less likely to curl up in unbecoming ways, and that seems to be working. I’m a couple of rows away from casting off and starting on the duplicate stitch.
In the process it occurred to me to look up how old knitting is, and thus ended up poking around on nailbinding (or Nålbinding) sites, looking at the things people can make with it. Knitting is more efficient but nailbinding is pretty cool looking; if I were still in the SCA I would be seriously interested.