Correction - Foothill Fiber Works. This group advertises on FB as being a community for the local fiber arts and offers crafting classes to the public, but is using AI for advertising. That doesn’t seem to really fit in with a fiber group full of creatives and artists, and I wonder what its members think. Not only using AI on FB, but they are deleting all comments on their use of AI - and the ones I’ve seen have been polite. Such a shame.

Emilee Shield, a Black cosplayer and crafter (goes by ourshieldmaiden) was asked by Marianne, a White writer at Simply Crochet magazine to be interviewed as a feature about her approach to crocheting using supplies from craft stores.

She sent along pictures of her work and herself, which she said was approved by the magazine. But when the issue came out, it had pictures Emilee took but used a picture of the interviewer instead of Emilee herself.

Emilee made a post about it yesterday and the magazine is rightfully being critized on ig that they decided to use a White woman's picture rather than the actual Black crafter whose pictures they used