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Earth Day: 100 Days (60)

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Day 60:

I’m so grateful for my colleagues. Got a nice pep talk from a neighboring teacher this morning who helped me shift shame into possibility.

I finished the white panel of the bamboo shrug this evening. Here is where I so often abandon a project. I had a vision when I started, and the shapes of these four panels just don’t seem to fit like I intended. Ugh. I’ll strategize tomorrow or this weekend.

Meanwhile, I am still caught in the web between Beauty and Rage.

Motherless
by Beth Weaver-Kreider, 2026

end stage patriarchy
and the men are drugging the planet
checking her eyes to see she’s asleep
before they ravage her

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Bear in the Woods: 100 Days (56)

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Day 56: 

I needed to switch it up today, so I worked on a prayer shawl UFO, and sorted my black-lined granny squares. I thought I probably had enough for a sweater, but I think I have only about half of what I will need. I want to add a couple evil eye patches, and I tried turning one of my eyes into a similarly sized square. It’s a little big and a little awkward. I think I’ll need to look up some patterns.

Bear in the Woods
by Beth Weaver-Kreider, 2026

You know that bear in the woods
we choose over meeting strange men?
She is our sister, that bear.
That wolf.
That snake.
That lion.
Those fangs and claws
that venom, those coils
and red raw rage to rend and tear.
That massive spider in the cave.
That flock of ravens circling above you 

They are our sisters, all.
And they are coming for you.
You who rape.
You who watch.
And you who keep the silence 
of the bro-codes. You.

You want to know how it feels
to feel unsafe in the woods
or anywhere?

Prepare yourself
to find out.

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Knit a Spell: 100 Days (55)

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Day 55: 

About five rows tonight. And a card from the Forest Fae deck by Nadia Turner: The Old One. The ancestors call. Seek their wisdom.

Today is National Haiku Day. Here’s a photo of the one I wrote last year.

Knit a Spell
by Beth Weaver-Kreider

she knits and crochets
purposeful tangles in string
to trap evil men

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Rage: 100 Days (54)

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Day 54: 

About three more rows tonight, and two reluctant sweater models. The blossoms are pawpaws, fully open now from the little globe I photographed earlier in the week.

Rage
by Beth Weaver-Kreider

Call that volcano Women’s Anger
and that one Awakening.

Feel the tectonic shift of plates
beneath your feet
the earthquake of women rising
lifting mountains
opening rifts with their rage
shaking the foundations
of the houses you built
to cage us

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Carrying Water: 100 Days (50)

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Day 50! Halfway there!

I finished the grey panel today and began on the white. I think I can see my way to finish this one. I had my doubts for a while. Went up to see my friend Sam Lewis today. Saw lots of buds and blooms, a flock of deer (I love their tails!) and a grumpy red-tailed hawk (she was making a sort of growling sound). At least three new kite remnants in the trees and wires.

Carrying Water for the Patriarchy
by Beth Weaver-Kreider

See how she trades away her own desire for desirability,
thinks proximity to power will bring her power,
thinks that will bring her safety,
puts on a mask to immobilize her face,
performs her femininity
with vacuous eyes and fatuous lies,
a puppet for the lords of greed.

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NO KING ANY TIME: 100 Days (34)

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Day 34: 

Today’s Project was a couple more little dolls for the second set of ten.

I was going to make a new sign for tomorrow’s NO KINGS march:

TURN THE FILES INTO TRIALS

PROSECUTE THE PEDOPHILES

because I think it’s really important to keep calling for prosecutions. But I pulled out my signs from previous NO KINGS Marches, and decided to re-use the one from last time.

No King Any Time (A Side) and Nothing Is More American Than Rejecting Kings (B Side). I usually wear Weeping Liberty around my neck. George Washington was from NK1. I’ll carry my Wave Goodbye to the Patriarchy handkerchief.

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Fierce: 100 Days (29)

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Day 29: On Which We get Sweet and Fierce

I outfitted five more fierce poppets for Radiance today. Don’t be deceived by their sweetness. They’re ready for the work, and they have no more patience for patriarchy. 

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What I Want from Men: 100 Days (26)

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Day 26:

Here is what I want from my beloved male allies right now:

1. Listen to women. When you feel an urge to explain or contextualize men’s speech and actions, just don’t.

2. Amplify women’s voices. In your speaking, and on your social media.

3. Know that, no matter our own histories—from boundary-crossing to harassment to coercion and violence—the stories are hitting us hard right now. The ground of the narrative today is our bodies. We might be feeling vulnerable, fierce, invisible, endangered, dangerous.

4. We don’t really want to deal with your feelings about it all right now. Do your own emotional labor.

5. Speak up, dammit. Call your brothers to account, for their sexist jokes, their boorish behavior, their silence.

6. Stand up for trans and nonbinary folks. They take so much of the weight of gender hatred perpetrated by men.

*****

I spent some time today organizing some scrap fabrics, cutting pieces for the 20 little dolls, and braiding up a couple little people. I’m also playing with free-form crochet on a neck-piece. 

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Little Protectors: 100 Days (25)

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Day 25:

One quarter of the way through the project today.

Starting on a new project today, getting another set of Little Protectors Dolls ready for Radiance. On my initial project list, I gave myself the goal of twenty. I have pieces cut for seven bodies right now, and I can get fabric laid out to cut another fifteen or so in the next couple of days. I braided one doll this evening, just so I could say I had done something other than just organize materials.

What magic shall I call upon for this batch of feisty protectors? Little Girl Dragon Energy. Old Woman Rising Energy. Fierce Mother Bears Energy. Ancestor Rescue Energy. Waving Goodbye to the Patriarchy Energy.

What magic are you calling upon for yourself in these days of turmoil and uproar?

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Little Red Breathes Fire: 100 Days (18)

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Day 18: 

I think it’s time to retell the story of Little Red. Mama warned her, as mothers must do, that wolves are dangerous, on the prowl for girls in the woods, insatiably hungry.  Perhaps Wolf perpetuates his fraud, and devours Red and her grandmother. Perhaps he invites his friends, and they devour her friends. 

Perhaps he even becomes the king of the village, with villagers celebrating his brutality, his cruelty, his power. 

Then, perhaps, Red and Granny, and Goldie and Snow and Cinder and Rapunzel, trapped as they are in the belly of Old Wolf and his toady wolves, remember that they can breathe fire. Perhaps they send flames shooting from their mouths and they burn Old Wolf and his cronies from the inside out.

Perhaps all the villagers gather around, and see the truth of Old Wolf’s evil as the Maidens and the Crone step out of the steaming carcasses.

Perhaps the Patriarchy falls. Perhaps the Bad Men face the ruin of their own making.

*****

Today’s Project work: About fifteen rows of the first sleeve (third attempt). And here’s the thing: I already love what is happening with the color and texture. 

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