Artist and Austin native Chantal Strasburger marries a sense of humor with righteous rage in her meme-inspired embroidered merch line, Read Receipts. Royally pissed about politics? She’s definitely threaded something relevant onto a ball cap or tee. From iconic images – Bernie in mittens, bless – to succinct slogans (“Control Guns, Not Girls”) and MAGA clapbacks (“Are We Great Yet?”), Strasburger uses the age-old tools of needle and thread to speak to the moment we’re in. Preach.
