APAWLA Goes to the Theater! "Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord"

Join APAWLA members for a pre-show meet up at 6PM and the showing of “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord,” a Pulitzer Prize nominated show, at 8PM at the Kirk Douglas Theater. On Day 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kristina Wong began sewing masks out of old bed sheets and bra straps on her Hello Kitty sewing machine. Belong long, she was leading the Auntie Sewing Squad, a work-from-home sweatshop of hundreds of volunteers—including children and her own mother—to fix the U.S. public health care system while in quarantine. It was a feminist care utopia forming in the midst of crisis. Or was it a mutual aid doomsday cult? As the demand for masks abated and we began to return safely to space, Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristina began to put her life together post-pandemic cult leadership. With hilarity and boundless generosity, she invited the audience in on her work to build community in…