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If Black people aren’t marching, then what? Part Two: Lisa Woolfork

By Myra Flynn
Published February 25, 2026 at 3:30 PM EST

We’ve been paying close attention to national and local coverage of recent protests, marches, and rallies — and frankly, some folks seem to be missing from those spaces. Black folks. So here on the show, we launched a mini-series to ask a direct question: If some Black people aren’t out in the streets, what are we doing instead? This is Part Two.

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“We told you what was going to happen. We voted in a way that reflected that, and you still refuse to listen. Why do you keep asking us for things that you don't truly want?” — Lisa Woolfork
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“We told you what was going to happen. We voted in a way that reflected that, and you still refuse to listen. Why do you keep asking us for things that you don't truly want?”  — Lisa Woolfork

Today on the show, a conversation with Lisa Woolfork — a sixth-generation sewist and host of the quilting podcast Stitch Please. Lisa unpacks the layered reasons she believes Black patience and Black forgiveness should never be treated as a renewable American resource.

Maybe right now, marching isn’t the move. Maybe, in this moment, we’re quilting instead.

This is part two of our series "If Black people aren't marching, then what?". You can listen to part one here.

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“And I think the idea that somehow Black patience and Black forgiveness is a renewable American resource is one of the unique tricks of American slavery is the ways in which it had become a system for which no one was responsible. This idea that somehow we are being expected to show our work is a question I refuse to answer.”
Lisa Woolfork

Credits

This episode was hosted and reported by executive producer, Myra Flynn and mixed by Burgess Brown. Our video director is Mike Dunn and Emmanuel Dzotsi is our editor. Myra composed the theme music with other music by Blue Dot Sessions. Kyle Ambusk is the graphic artist behind this episode’s Homegoings portrait.

Thank you for listening. You can see a video version of this episode on our YouTube Channel.

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Myra Flynn
Myra Flynn joined Vermont Public in March 2021 and is the Host and Executive Producer of Homegoings. Raised in Vermont, Myra Flynn is an accomplished musician who has come to know the lay of dirt-road land that much more intimately through touring both well-known and obscure stages all around the state and beyond. She also has experience as a teaching artist and wore many hats at the Burlington Free Press, including features reporter and correspondent, before her pursuits took her deep into the arts world. Prior to joining Vermont Public, Myra spent eight years in the Los Angeles music industry.
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