Trans Resistance was formed in June 2020 by a collective of trans and queer activists in the Boston area who built upon years of contention with the Boston Pride board for being trans-exclusionary in their process, vision, and work and failing to equitably represent the magical TQBIPOC community in Boston. Throughout the year Trans Resistance creates spaces, events and experiences that uplift the Trans Queer Black Indigenous People Of Color community. They work in collaboration with other social justice networks in order to address the pressing, urgent, and emergent needs of marginalized communities across Massachusetts. Trans Resistance is entirely grassroots...

It's our favorite time of the year! Inman Eats AND Crafts! Come experience all the joys of Inman Square on Sunday, May 21, 2023 - live music, great food, artists and craftspeople, and the small businesses that make our neighborhood special. AND come and shop our Annual Sidewalk Sale - bringing back the super sale by-the-yard fabrics as well as our Fill-A-Bag with discontinued yarn, fabrics, patterns, and more. We will also have a rack of store samples which are made by us but the fabric is no longer available or the pattern is discontinued. Like in past years, you...

With the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and the drop in the number of hospital admissions (as of publishing this blog the Boston Metro Area is averaging 3.2 hospital admissions per 100K according to the site: Covid ActNow), gather here is lifting our mask requirement for in-store shopping beginning May 12, 2023. We will continue to require workshop participants to mask due to the long period of time attendees spend together in close-ish quarters. We believe that craft is for everyone and recognize that dropping the mask requirement may make shopping a dangerous activity for some community members....

You can't open a newspaper or turn on the news without learning about another effort to restrict abortion access in the US. And while bans failed in Nebraska and South Carolina the last week of April, access to mifepristone is still threatened in the courts. The National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. “TOGETHER, we are going to keep building our political power, keep disrupting, keep funding abortions, and keep shutting shit...

Since 2018, the Cambridge Modern Quilt Guild has raffled off a quilt to benefit youth interested in attending gather here's fiber camps. We are pleased to announce that this partnership continues and like previous years, we will match up to $1,500 in raffle ticket sales to help young folks in the community learn to sew, quilt, and more this summer. We are so freakin' excited to share this opportunity with all of you to win a beautiful handmade quilt and to help coordinate applications. The CMQG will be at the 6th Annual Inman Eats AND Crafts event on Sunday, May...