Good morning and happy Sunday! It is also International Trans Day of Visibility as well as Easter Sunday. I’m going to speak a little about this before we move into the knitting content of this blog post.
The first International Trans Day of Visibility was held on March 31st in 2009 and has taken place on that day every year since. The same day. Every year. For fifteen years. One day to recognize the dignity and value of the lives of our Trans friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. Which we should be doing every day. People who have always been there. Even if you don’t know it.
Easter falls on a different date every year. This year, it happens to fall on the same day as International Trans Day of Visibility.
The radical rabid republicans whose continued persecution and demonization of Trans people is the very reason a Trans Day of Visibility is needed have seized on this. Our local Lauren Boebert/MTG wannabe and twice failed congressional candidate had this to say on Twitter:
Trans Day of Visibility was not established by either Governor Hochul or President Biden. It happened on the same date during the previous administration, too. We see this lying trash for what she is. I am so glad this hateful bitch lost her attempts to infiltrate Congress and add to the spectacle of dysfunction, lying, and weaponization we’ve seen from the rest of idiot republicans.
Remember this in November.
Earlier this week I began a new knitting project using yarn that a dear friend had dyed for me. The colors reminded me of Easter eggs.
I paired it with another yarn that I thought complimented it nicely. The color is called Edison Bulb and it is a lot more yellow than the photos from my phone show.
I chose a pattern called Happy Street by Veera Välimäki. I love the stripey aesthetic and I am using Edison Bulb as the main color and the Easter dyed yarn as both contrasting colors. I haven’t gotten far with it but it is far enough to see how awesome these yarns are going to look together in this project.
That other project I was working hard to finish before starting this one…is still unfinished. That’s okay. It’s a scarf. I am not really going to need it until show and tell at the fall retreat. It’s called Windward by Heidi Kirrmaier and it has a very unique construction as you can see. There is one more smaller triangular section that will connect to the one I’m nearing the end of.
That’s all for today. Have a great rest of the weekend and a Happy Easter!
Aaron knits...and spins, and weaves. 
Hate is one of my least favorite “christian values” and one of the most prevalent lately. Thank you for this timely and beautiful blog post.
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Thank you for sharing such a supportive and enlightening post on your blog. As a lesbian couple, my wife and I are deeply committed to fostering an environment of love and acceptance. Among our friends are a handful of individuals who are transgender, each with their unique stories and struggles, and it’s through these relationships that we’ve further solidified our belief in the power of unconditional love and acceptance.
Our home is a place where everyone is welcome, a place where prejudice and discrimination have no place. We firmly believe that hate is a learned behavior, a destructive force that we actively reject and oppose in all its forms. Love, we’ve learned, is infinitely more powerful and is the very essence of the community we strive to build and support. 🙂
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