Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Lyn Lee. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Lyn, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

I am very invested in the right to housing as well as anti-imperialism and internationalism. Any profit from these particular projects go directly to grassroots organizations. These projects are the most meaningful to me.

Lyn, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I started embroidering for fun, but it quickly became a means to express a lot of the frustration that I feel as a working class parent living in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. I am also a community organizer by day working primarily in tenants rights, so needless to say I am deeply engulfed in my community and further fueled by class struggle.

Learning embroidery as a craft and a way of political expression has been incredibly meaningful to me. Embroidery is often associated with domesticity and traditional “women’s work”. When I stitch, it is a long, purposeful and calculated way of cementing a sentiment, stitch by stitch. My work, although often very silly in nature, is first and foremost a political act. Art isn’t meaningful to me without collectivization. My favorite part about what I do, weather it be stitching or political organizing, is meeting other people who are down for the cause and spreading that working class pride!

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

To have a thriving creative ecosystem requires that we have the time and the means to create and engage in art and culture. Art being a political and social function, it’s important to highlight and support proletarian art specifically. Art should be joined to the masses. It is even more important to look at the bigger picture- how can we as a people work to improve our material conditions in order to thrive?

Can you share your view on NFTs? (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

I think that NFTs are jarring because they’re so blatantly capitalistic.. But what can we expect when we live in a society that is obsessed with commodification? They’re the perfect symbolism for digital capitalism. As an anti-capitalist, I am against NFTs. They are really just a statement of ownership, after all!

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