Warp & Weft

arts/crafts/heritage initiative celebrating diverse lives & voices #BigUpFemaleBoffins

[Warp & Weft @warp_weft]

@skylinermcr @caitlinmoran 😅🖐️

[Warp & Weft @warp_weft]

For sure!!!

[Warp & Weft @warp_weft]

Loving @caitlinmoran timeline this arvo, full of statues of amazing women 💪💪

[Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran]

a) every woman doesn't look like this b) FAMOUS MALE INTELLECTUALS GET STATUES OF THEM SO WE SEE THEM AND REMEMBER THEM c) being hot and naked so regularly defines women that to deliberately play INTO it does nothing but reinforce tired old tropes.

[Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran]

This is the new statue of Mary Wollstonecraft. It's not making me angry in any way because I just KNOW the streets will soon be full of statues depicting John Locke's shiny testicles, Nelson Mandela's proud penis, and Descartes adorable arse.

[Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran]

Imagine if there was a statue of a hot young naked guy "in tribute" to eg Churchill. It would look mad. This, also, looks mad.

[Danny Brierley @DannyJBrierley]

@caitlinmoran Blackburn also has this, which was created by Welsh artist Robert Thomas in 1974. It was controversial at the time because... she isn't wearing a wedding ring.

[Sally Clayden 🇪🇺 @MuttonMusic]

The absolute joy that is @caitlinmoran timeline this afternoon. Some stunningly beautiful and moving statues of women. I need to make a list. Just a few copied here: a grand one of Mary Seacole, a lovely park bench statue of Vera Britain and the gansey girl in Bridlington.

[Warp & Weft @warp_weft]

Remembering & honouring Mary Heaton who was locked in Wakefield asylum for 41 years for challenging male authority. Her surviving needlework samplers tell her life story. https://t.co/69qD0dm1C8

[Warp & Weft @warp_weft]

"Women’s concerns and the things that are particularly compelling, real, funny, painful and poignant for us can just be dismissed.” fabulous interview with @ninastibbe https://t.co/xRsQ4kCfF8

[Warp & Weft @warp_weft]

Check out Helen's knitted drawing - anxiety during these strange times @hanselmeek #covidcraft #covidquilt #craft #knitting

[Helen @hanselmeek]

Quality control. 🐦
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#viv #vivstagram #birb #cockatiel #cockatielsofinstagram #knitting #knit #craft #yarnart #fibreart #handmade #hanselmeek #art #artist #knitteddrawing https://t.co/YHjVVcNLlF

[Helen @hanselmeek]

New knitting feat. Massive Tangle. 🧶🐦🧡
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#knitting #knit #craft #yarnart #fibreart #handmade #hanselmeek #art #artist #anxiety #knitteddrawing #bluejay https://t.co/hIbjPY80wq

[ITV News West Country @itvwestcountry]

Watch the moment a statue of slave trader Edward Colston is pulled down in Bristol city centre during #BLMbristol

[muiz @muiz]

You can read more about #EdwardColston's criminal life & his statue in Bristol in this amazing piece by @DavidOlusoga for @Guardian, written in 2017.

https://t.co/yYirGr9Bj9

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

"Statues aren't the mechanism for understanding history...
Statues are about adoration, about saying this was a great man & he did great things. That is not true. He was a slave trader & a murderer."

Brilliant answer by @DavidOlusoga on why statues must fall.

#BlackLivesMatter

[David Olusoga @DavidOlusoga]

The statue of Edward Colston, slave trader of the Royal African Company, has been toppled by crowds in the centre of Bristol.

[Hazel Reeves @HazelReeves]

Very exciting day for #Plymouth and celebrating the first woman MP to take her seat, exactly 100 years ago, #Astor100 - congratulations to sculptor #HayleyGibbs and @BowaterComms and @ladyastorstatue
- sorry I can't be with you to join the festivities : ))

[Helen @hanselmeek]

Today is #antislaveryday and I'm reposting this to raise awareness of @Hopeforjustice and the work they do to help people affected by modern slavery https://t.co/q6uFWAfnEe