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Auntie Sewing Squad: Masks for Those in Need

As the nation grappled with mask shortages, performance artist Kristina Wong rallied together a grassroots mutual aid network of people who made potentially life-saving facemasks using their sewing machines. She called them the Auntie Sewing Squad. Rallying 800 aunties in 33 states, the group sewed 350,000 masks and gave them to asylum seekers, Indigenous tribes and other vulnerable communities.

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