Thread Spun

Love you so, ladies. Get out there and rawdog your bare face. Feel your rage. Express it. Channel it. Climb a mountain, ride a wave, disturb the peace, whatever. No one creates art or writes poetry about lukewarm fu***ng tap water. Slide 20, 🙇‍♀️

✔️ small business with values
✔️ women-owned and operated business with feelings

Thread Spun lore 🧶 let me spin you a yarn, tell you a tale, about a small social enterprise business that I am pretty sure will feature largely in the story of my life. At least I hope so!

Back in 2010-2015 I was working for a nonprofit that had a federal grant to resettle refugees from around the world. I “provided” social services and case management. I attended a Catholic university to pursue an advanced degree in Peace and Justice. I studied the role of the church in actively thwarting both of those things throughout time. I met people from Iran, Iraq, Burma, Syria, and Eritrea - and each person’s history revealed untruths to what I had been told growing up. And what really happened in this time, is that I learned of my own white saviorism and fragility, my role as a tool of empire, and of the neocolonial destruction that my government was causing around the world. It was a humbling life lesson in how the world really works, a deep dive into its inequities and contradictions, hearing first hand accounts from people who had seen much more than I, had been propagandized much less. I had gone to university in Canada, and our country’s shine had certainly worn off, but I still thought I understood. Anyway, I left that job to pursue this one, and since then, I’ve been doing things differently. I would love it if you’d come do things differently, too. 🫂 Stay tuned for part 2, as they say.

New shirts by my longtime favorite brand CHNGE ™ have arrived in the shop :) Heavyweight GOTS organic cotton tees with a portion of proceeds to various causes and charities. All of our homies hate 🧊

Our email subscribers saw it first 👀 but now it’s your chance to snag some sustainably-minded brands at a deal!

As summer starts to wind down, we’re doing 25% off all kids apparel this week 💫including sale items💫
And there’s a bunch more styles freshly added to the sale section as of this morning!

Shop in store or online, just use the code “leoseason” at checkout - you’ve got until Sunday night 🤸‍♀️