An organization that promotes the work of audio professionals has honored a local podcast with a top award for 2024. The Podcast Adademy has named Stitch Please its Best DIY Podcast at a ceremony in Los Angeles in late March.
“The Ambies celebrate excellence in podcasting and elevate awareness and status of podcasts as a unique and personal medium for entertainment, information, storytelling and expression,” reads a press release announcing the winners.
Stitch Please is the podcast for Black Women Stitch, created by Lisa Woolfork of Charlottesville. She began the campaign after August 12, 2017 to write about the Black experience in sewing after feeling ostracized in traditional groups. Black Women Stitch has the tagline of “the sewing community where Black lives matter.”
“After harrowing experiences with racist terror attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia, I decided to build a Black feminist liberation space of care that celebrates the creative lives of Black women, girls, and femmes,” Woolfork writes on her website.
The show comes out every Wednesday and features sewing tips, history, and interviews with Black quilters, designers, and fiber artists. Previous guests have included Bisa Butler, sustainability activist Aja Barber, and US Poet Laureate Rita Dove. Woolfork is assisted with editing support from Podcast Laundry.
Woolfork’s award of Best DIY Podcast is one of 27 AMBIES. Podcast of the Year went to Slate Magazine with Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas. There’s a full list of winners at this press release.
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