Pussy Hat

Pussy Hat

My mother knitted them for my brother and I as part of the resistance.  Some of the ladies in her knitting group were passing the pattern along among themselves.  I wore mine with pride all that winter in Memphis. One of my students asked about it. We looked them up online.  Later I learned that one of my students had reported me for saying the word “pussy” in the classroom. Hearing it made her feel uncomfortable.  “Politics is not a protected trait.”