Friday, December 07, 2007

Tit Bits - a love story for knitters and healers


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To my wonderful women friends
who may know someone in need of a new
left or right breast,
raise a toast to Beryl Tsang
who knitted her way to wellness
and emerged with a business
and a smile.

Thanks to my knitting daughter Jackie who sent me the story:
Source: knitty
or go directly to Beryl Tsang's site:
tit bits

Googling Beryl's name, I also found this reference to a workshop last April in Toronto:

April 23, 2007: Tit-Bits: knitting & breasts with Beryl Tsang. In this workshop themed "Take Back the Tit" participants will learn to knit and construct "Tit-Bit" out of a luxury fibre (cotton silk, soy silk or cashmerino) that can be used as an object d'art or object de nécessité. Women who have lost a breast to cancer can use the Tit-Bit as an alternative to those nasty silicone prosthetics that resemble liver, while others can knit one that can be used for social or political action.


Beryl Tsang holds graduate degrees in East Asian history and cultural studies and has a long and varied career that has included a stint as a policy "wonk," diversity consultant, community worker, adult educator and advocate. A practicing Buddhist, she has a deep interest in faith, feminist and social justice issues. She also publishes and speaks widely on gender, identity and class. When not working Beryl can usually be found hanging out with her family (two kids, their dad and their pet snake), knitting mass quantities of unsual oject d'arts and lying on a yoga mat. A knitter who believes in reclaiming public space she is a founder of the Toronto Knit Rabble and an organizer of the twice yearly TTC Knit A Long.
Source: http://www1.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse/events.html

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