What She Said Stitches

Where the words of strong women are immortalized, one stitch at a time. 

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Photographed by Matthew Rolston for Vogue January 1991 (via carrieffisherappreciation)

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Helen Zia ( 1952 - ) is a Chinese American journalist and activist most known for her success in having Vincent Chin’s murderers convicted on charge of a racially motivated hate crime. Her journalism also helped to unify the weak Asian American community in Detroit, and rallied people to demand justice for Chin. 

She is the former Executive Editor for Ms. Magazine, and has produced ground-breaking journalistic work, such as her investigation of date rape at the University of Michigan (which resulted in a significant change in policies) and research on women who join neo-Nazi organizations. Zia is also known for her advocacy of LGBT rights and same-sex marriage, and married her partner, Lia Shigemura, in 2008. 

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“THE MORE I KNOW MEN, THE MORE I LOVE MY DOG,” Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 - July 6, 1992) and friend, New York City, c. 1980s. Photo by Randy Wicker. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #Resist #MarshaPJohnson #PayItNoMind #Mood @payitnomind (at New York, New York)

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Bernadette Devlin was an Irish feminist, socialist, and republican, and at age 21, she became the youngest female Member of Parliament. She spoke passionately, eloquently, intelligently, and unforgivingly in support of Catholics during the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. In 1969, after the keys to New York City were presented to her, Devlin gave them to the Black Panther Party, because she better identified with them and their plight than with the conservative Irish-Americans she had met on her visit to the U.S. In 1972, the British Home Secretary made a defense for the British soldiers who shot 26 unarmed Irish civilians during the Bogside Massacre. In the middle of his speech, Devlin stood up and punched him. She stated that it was “coldly, and calmly done” and that she did it to deliver “a simple, proletarian protest.” When asked if she was going to apologize, she responded, “I’m just sorry I didn’t get him by the throat.” 

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Tall, androgynous and armed — she held a state gun permit — Ms. DeLarverie roamed lower Seventh and Eighth Avenues and points between into her 80s, patrolling the sidewalks and checking in at lesbian bars. She was on the lookout for what she called “ugliness”: any form of intolerance, bullying or abuse of her “baby girls.” … “She literally walked the streets of downtown Manhattan like a gay superhero. … She was not to be messed with by any stretch of the imagination.”

From the obituary of Storme DeLarverie, a native New Orleanian who threw the first punch at Stonewall. (via beignetsatwhistlestop)

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“The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.” Happy 90th Birthday Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 - December 25, 2008)

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This Is What Life Is Like As A Dreamer

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Day 22 of #BlackHistoryYouDidntLearnInSchool - Pauli Murray

“If anyone should ask a Negro woman in America what has been her greatest achievement, her honest answer would be, “I survived!”

“Hope is a song in a weary throat.”

How ‘Respectability Politics’ Muted the Legacy of Black LGBT Activist Pauli Murray by Brittney Cooper

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W.I.T.C.H. PDX: Portland Brings Back The Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell | Haute Macabre

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“My femininity is something that I’ve had to fight for,I was terrified of being as feminine as I was. When I finally just let go and was like, let me embrace this, it felt so freeing. What might be shackles for one woman is liberating for another.”

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Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.

Countess Markievicz, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice  (via morecolorfulmetaphors)

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By Ellen T. Crenshaw

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I aspire to reach this level of iconic someday

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“You have brought peace to my last years. For 69 years I have been frantically searching for myself. And now you tell me that I am a “myth”. What a blessing. Henceforth, I shall disintegrate comfortably in bed with my books, cigarettes, coffee, bread, cheese, and apricot jam. Regards - Louise Brooks” Louise Brooks in correspondence with Guido Crepax, 1976.

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i did an important art project today

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Design is available here! Just print out on 8.5x11″ paper, cut along the gray lines, paint the back of the paper with craft glue (i used Mod Podge) and wrap it around a plain glass pillar candle. Voila: your very own secular and/or idolatrous Space Mom candle! Please remember that Carrie Fisher’s dad was Jewish every time you look at it, cause, you know. He was.

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Hello! I have a small question and a big 'thank you' to give-- your Carrie Fisher pattern is wonderful, I don't think I've ever stitched something so quickly and intently. Thank you for sharing it-- it was very cathartic to work on. On mine, I thought the bottom border looked a little off- like it had been slid over a pixel- and so I changed it to match the top one. That's the question- is it supposed to be one way or the other? Thanks! :)

Yeah, the border misalignment is an error. The pattern was, admittedly, put together in a bit of a rush.

Thanks for letting us know! We’ll be uploading a fixed version shortly.

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“I hope they are intimidated by me, yes. Sometimes, it depends on if they’re smart or not.” (x)

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What a fucking icon.

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Carrie Fisher’s Unsung Legacy

While best known as an actor, it shouldn’t go unacknowledged that Carrie Fisher was also ONE HELL of a writer. As a matter of fact, she had a hand in writing some of the best movies in Hollywood. 

Script doctoring, or script consulting, is a skill that often goes uncredited and unacknowledged in Hollywood. Writers will get hired to polish up an existing screenplay; just like doctors, they diagnose problems and suggest solutions. In the case of script doctoring, that means anything from adding in a few new jokes, to implementing massive structural changes or reworking entire characters and scenes.

Carrie Fisher’s career as a script doctor became the stuff of legend in the 1990s. Fisher was responsible for fixing up Hook in 1991, Sister Act in 1992, Lethal Weapon 3 in 1992 and The Wedding Singer in 1998. In 1992, Entertainment Weekly called Carrie Fisher “one of the most sought after doctors in town”—high praise, and one of the only accolades that Fisher would ever receive in printed form, given that she was not credited by name as a writer for any of the films in which she had a hand.

So now you know. Carrie was a brilliant writer, and her legacy will live on forever in many, many different forms. We may never know just how many movies she worked on and fixed up! 

http://www.themarysue.com/carrie-fisher-script-doctor/