Crafting Dissent : Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats

About the Editor and the Contributors

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Intro; contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Yarn, Thread, Scissors, Fabric; CRAFTING HISTORIES; Craftivism from Philomenato the Pussyhat; Weaving the Way toward Liberty; Spinning, Sewing, and Soliciting forthe American Revolution; The Anti-Craft Activismof Enslaved Americans; The Underground Railroad QuiltCode Myth and the Culture ofCrafted Experience; Finding Frederick and Anna Douglass'sParking Lot; Stitching Dissent; How Homespun Cotton Cloth Becamethe Fabric of Indian Political Life; "It's Getting Bitchy in Knitting Circles"; POLITICS OF CRAFT

The Entanglement of Consumption, Commerce, and Craft ActivismHow to Smash the Patriarchy; Craftivism as DIY Citizenship; A Tale of Two Scarves, of "Pride" and "Pain"; "Consent Trumps Everything"; Curating Craftivism and RethinkingCollection(s); CRAFTING CULTURECONVERSATIONS; How to Be a Craftivist; Crafting a Place in History; Mending Our Clothing, Mending the World; Crafting Change; Crafting, Crime, Harm, and Justicein Australia; Crafting the "Vulva Quilt"; Craft as a Pedagogy of Hope; Reshaping the Narrative aroundPeople of Color and Craftivism; Afterword; Index

Pussyhats quite literally created a sea of pink the day after Donald J. Trump became the 45th president of the United States in January 2017. But there was nothing new about women crafting as a means of dissent. This is the first book that shows how craft, has also been used as a subversive tool throughout history and up to the present day in 2018