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derspatchel just came upstairs with the latest issue of The New Yorker and its excellent cover.

I like that there's a real, practical link for artist Abigail Gray Swartz between the women's marches and the idea of Rosie the Riveter, not just an obvious update on a cultural icon:
I started thinking how there was this effort on the part of women to create a symbol for the march. It felt reminiscent of World War II when women rationed silk stockings in order to have enough material for the soldiers' parachutes. How women knit for the soldiers and filled in at the factories while the men were away at war. Just like how we are reclaiming the word "pussy," the hat is also a symbol of our history in our country—we are knitting something for the new "war effort" to fight for our rights as women. We are knitting for ourselves.
I also like that the idea of Rosie as a woman of color was, for her, a "no brainer―I want to paint Rosie as a symbol of the Women's March and she should look like this." So many of the real Rosies did.

More of this sort of thing, please. Much, much, much less of this.
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I like that there's a real, practical link for artist Abigail Gray Swartz between the women's marches and the idea of Rosie the Riveter, not just an obvious update on a cultural icon:
I started thinking how there was this effort on the part of women to create a symbol for the march. It felt reminiscent of World War II when women rationed silk stockings in order to have enough material for the soldiers' parachutes. How women knit for the soldiers and filled in at the factories while the men were away at war. Just like how we are reclaiming the word "pussy," the hat is also a symbol of our history in our country—we are knitting something for the new "war effort" to fight for our rights as women. We are knitting for ourselves.
I also like that the idea of Rosie as a woman of color was, for her, a "no brainer―I want to paint Rosie as a symbol of the Women's March and she should look like this." So many of the real Rosies did.

More of this sort of thing, please. Much, much, much less of this.