The Good Old Bad Old Days

Cutting - in my opinion, the most labor intensive part of the process. The amount of time/effort needed varies depending on the pattern and if seam allowance is included or marked separately, but no matter what this process can not be done by machine. Each and every panel and piece of fabric that goes into a garment must be cut by hand by a person.

Pinning/clipping - pinning (or clipping) is the stage at which you align the pieces you are going to be stitching together and hold them together with — you guessed it! — either pins or clips. This can not be done by machine.

Stitching - the actual sewing. This can be done by a sewing machine, but that machine still needs to be operated by a human being.

Ironing/pressing - two words that mean the same thing. The iron itself is a machine, but once again, it needs to be operated by a human being.

Finishing - depending on the technique you use, there are certain finishing techniques that can only be done by hand. But, let’s assume we’re talking about fast fashion, which is usually just finished with a simple overlock/serger. Once again: these machines need to be operated by people.

These are just the basic steps to making a garment, and don’t include textile arts that I am not as knowledgeable about, such as weaving, knitting, and crochet. Also, it is important to note that there are a lot of things that can only be done by hand, such as certain stitches and decorative techniques.

Also, the machinery being operated in textile factories is not equivalent to a domestic sewing machine. We’re talking about one of these guys:

See that gray cylinder under the table, behind the knee pedal? That’s the motor. These machines can sew through your fingers bones and all and not even stop. The people in these factories and sweatshops are operating heavy machinery, and are subject to all the risk that comes with that in addition to all of the work I mentioned above.

This could have been avoided by realizing not all disabilities make people weaker--in fact, the opposite,

Bartholomew

Dolores

Norman

Harold

Magnolia

Names that are normal for babies but weird when you're old:

Maddison

Tanner

Skylar

Mckenzie

Logan

Names that are normal for old people and normal for babies:

Elizabeth

Mary

Michael

Finnegan

Peter

Names that are weird when you're a baby and weird when you're old:

Radish

Kerosene

Australopithecus

Anthill

Hegemony

Names that are weird when you're normal:

Balthazar

Romulus

Clandestia

Persephone

Kremulon

Names that are normal when you're weird:

made this one for the aspec community

Go to transfeminist Discord server

Racism towards nonwhite trans woman

Go to local trans outing

People making jokes about hanging people while there are only 3 Black/Brown people left

Go back to server

Server has exploded over racism, banned the girl who experienced the racism

Go to dyke event

Wrestle hot dykes in jello

Go back to server

Discover I’ve been elected as one of the people to run the server without my knowing

Gods, who’s that comedian with the joke about “if it hadn’t been for my horse, I never would’ve spent two years in college” - Like people be saying shit that’ll stick in your brain forever and you will NEVER get further context for, and you’re just left thinking about that one out of context paragraph.

Majority white spaces are this but with racist statements.

Some motherfucker saw some nice girls setting up a ham radio and went “you know what would really make this outing? If we could string someone up right now” and now instead of remembering “oh I went to the park and got a free burger” it’s “this one time I went to a trans meetup and someone made a lynching joke so I instantly dipped with protection from a bodyguard white”

And like.. none of this is *uncommon* this was just worse than normal.

Also, whites straight up don’t have to notice stuff for your own constant safety to the same degree. Like not every nonwhite is my level of hypervigilant but y’all can accept something as normal that isnt bc it ain’t affect y’all directly. Like to give an example.

One of the other racist things I saw today actually *started* yesterday, group of friends were talking about physics, two white dolls with no background in it, and one nonwhite doll with a formal education in it. The nonwhite doll was explaining things in detail but it wasn’t until a fourth person, a white doll who’s a professional physicist as well, came in and backed up the nonwhite doll, that the other whites were willing to accept it.

I bring it up earlier today bc the nonwhite doll came to me frustrated about the racism inherent in refusing to treat someone nonwhite as an educated competent source until a white voice supported her.

And just.. none of the other white folks in that group had noticed or even thought of it that way, whereas the other folks of color had seen it but been scared to speak up about it. Had just accepted it as another microaggression they’d have to live with seeing and happening.

Like. People just be saying shit that doesnt click as racism around/to y’all (general, white) until one of us points it out, and that leads y’all to automatically mentally filtering out a lot of the racist bullshit that gets said around y’all unless it’s like conservative buzzwords or slurs, and often it ends up with people trying to protect the white that said shit.