Practicing the unlikely but not unprecedented mix of needle arts and Black liberation, Lisa Woolfork sewing and quilting practice operates alongside her scholarly work. Woolfork is an academic, sewist, community organizer, and podcaster. She is the founder of Black Women Stitch, the sewing group where Black Lives Matter. She is also the host/producer of Stitch Please, am award-winning weekly audio podcast that centers Black women, girls, and femmes in sewing. In the summer of 2017, she organized in community to protest the white supremacist insurgency in her city Charlottesville, VA. She resisted in a variety of ways including nonviolent direct action, working with a bail fund for activists, sewing for a creative arts team, and participating in, and later co-founding, CARML, an antiracist media collective. Her essay “‘This Class of Persons:’ When UVA’s White Supremacist Past Meets Its Future” was published in a collection of essays about the terror events in Charlottesville. She has spoken about the connections between Black liberation and craft for the Smithsonian’s African American Craft Summit, the Modern Quilt Guild, the Center for Craft, and more. She is currently writing Black Women Stitch Liberation, a book that addresses the connections between Black women’s creativity, autonomy, and community.