Event: We Go Down Sewing: A Conversation with the Auntie Sewing Squad

Date: Tuesday, April 26th

Time: 2pm to 3:15pm

RSVP Link: https://bit.ly/auntiesewingcsulb

The Auntie Sewing Squad began as a small collective of friends making masks for essential workers at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the wake of government failures. It grew into a mutual aid network of 800 “Aunties” sewing masks for BIPOC communities across the U.S.. Their work is chronicled in their new book, The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (University of California Press, 2021). 

Featuring: 

• Discussion between “overlord” and performance artist Kristina Wong, co-editor, Mai-Linh Hong, and contributor, Leilani Chan, with Preeti Sharma.

Co-sponsored by: The Departments and Programs of Asian and Asian American Studies; Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies; American Studies; Asian Pacific Islander Network; Yadunan Center for India Studies. Funded by the CLA Scholarly Intersection Grant.