Stitch Please

Black Sewing Network

Episode Summary

In this episode of Stitch Please, Carmen Green talks about her Black Sewing Network on TikTok and how it has become much more than a sewing space, especially for Black women. Carmen tells us how she had navigated the difficulties of growing and building a community on TikTok, the effort and love that she puts into her Network for it to be a space to which people want to return again and again, and really how to thrive into a social media algorithm that isn't really designed for Black people.

Episode Notes

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Carmen Green

Carmen Green is a stylist, an influencer, a community builder, an absolute fashionista, and a role model entrepreneur who always aims to learn not only about fashion and sewing but marketing as well. She is the founder of the Black Sewing Network on TikTok. She believes in building creative communities on social media not only by shifting the culture of Instagram to be more fun, relaxed and authentic but also by trying new platforms such as TikTok  to create a really inclusive and safe space like the Black Sewing Network where women from various countries not only learn to sew but are seen and supported in order to thrive.

 

Lisa Woolfork

Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English, specializing in African American literature and culture. Her teaching and research explore Black women writers, Black identity, trauma theory, and American slavery. She is the founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black lives matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, a weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she actively resisted the white supremacist marches in her community, Charlottesville Virginia. The city became a symbol of lethal resurging white supremacist violence. She remains active in a variety of university and community initiatives, including the Community Engaged Scholars program. She believes in the power of creative liberation.

 

Insights from this Episode

 

Quotes from the Show: 

Shout out to Julian Collins of Julian Creates for the name Black Sewing Network

See Safiya Noble's Algorithms of Oppression to learn more about why social media seems/is whitewashed

Stay Connected:

Lisa Woolfork

Instagram: Lisa Woolfork

Twitter: Lisa Woolfork

 

Carmen Green

TikTok: Carmen Green

Instagram: Carmen Green

Amazon Store: Carmen Green

Facebook: Carmen Green

Black Sewing Community: https://linktr.ee/blacksewingnetwork

 

This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry.