Holyoke Threads was born from a question that wouldn't let me go:
What does it mean to resist—quietly, daily, locally?

In an age of increasing consolidation, surveillance, and systemic dehumanization, I didn’t want my only choices to be digital convenience or corporate allegiance. I wanted a third path—something rooted, relational, and real. Holyoke Threads is my answer. My offering. My revolt.

It’s a living project designed to reconnect neighbors, uplift local makers and services, and gently reweave the fraying fabric of community here in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It’s about shopping in person when possible—circulating resources with intention and reclaiming the village mindset—one thread at a time.

This isn’t nostalgia. It’s a strategy.
A form of resistance to a fascist system that thrives on disconnection, distraction, and dependency.

I’m not here to eliminate the internet. I’m here to recalibrate how I use it. As a tool, not a tether. A means of amplifying what already exists on the ground, not replacing it.

Holyoke Threads is part map, part movement. A way of finding each other again. Remembering that revolution can take the form of a farmer’s market, a lending library, a dance class, or a locally made sweater.

If you’re nearby, this is your invitation.
Because you and I are not just participants in the world—we are its pattern-makers.
We create the myths we live today.
So let’s make them beautiful, local, and alive.