Creativity as a Weapon Against Capitalism

Recently I have been examining how capitalism has colored and distorted our culture and society. This is no new revelation but I have been trying to address how I can combat this monster of a system in my own small world. 

A major tool in this, you will not be surprised to learn, has been hand sewing. The clarity in my thinking that comes with my creative practice allows for insights that I think come from our collective divine voice. 

Sewing or any creative pursuit for its own sake not only is a conversation with the divine (to me creativity and spirit are the same) but it is in of itself rebellion. The fiber arts work I do has no purpose other than pure enjoyment - a radical idea in a world that bases the value of a person on their productivity.   

Another way of fighting capitalism is by building community. Community allows healthy interdependence to flourish where we share resources and time together. In the process we consume less and hopefully talk more about what we need to heal and grow a significant blow to a system that is set on selling to us what we do not need.

I am taking these two elements - creativity and community and using them to offer this sweet class that I hope will be full of medicine for those who participate. This is the Slow Stitching as Spiritual Practice class that I am teaching with Cherry Hill Seminary. 

As a further personal push against capitalism, I want to share that all profits from my embroidery kits will be going to Operation Olive Branch - a grassroots movement looking to support Palestinians through many different projects. Learn more here: https://linktr.ee/opolivebranch
This will continue for the foreseeable future as I look to ways of using my position of privilege to breakdown a system that oppresses us all.