Stitching Abolition with Dr. Sharbreon Plummer
Dr. Sharbreon Plummer is a textile artist, scholar, researcher, and a newly minted Ph.D. She shares insight into how she's been able to build a vocation from what some would consider an avocation. From inheriting an old seafoam green sewing machine from her great-grandmother to what the different modalities of sewing and crafting reveal about the lives of Black women and their practices, Dr. Plummer shares her thoughts on how sewing, stitching, and textile art shows up in the world of academia. And learn more about STITCH X STITCH a conference Dr. Plummer is co-organizing on the connections between needlearts and liberation, specifically in the context of prison abolition and justice work. Spoiler alert: Lisa will be there!