Crafting the Resistance (eBook)

35 Projects for Craftivists, Protestors, and Women Who Persist

Heather Marano, Lara Neel (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
192 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-3139-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Knit, sew, and craft your way to self-empowerment. Are you a Nasty Woman ready to smash the patriarchy with a needle and thread? Proudly proclaim your feminism with your very own DIY Bleeding Heart T-shirt? Or stage a protest with the rest of the girls, wearing knitted Pussyhats? Be part of the revolution by reclaiming the "e;domestic"e; arts of knitting, sewing, and moreto channel your feminist rage. With pictures, step-by-step instructions, bonus patterns, and tips for crafters of all skill levels from beginner to advanced, Crafting the Resistance is the book for women's rights activists on a DIY path to self-determination. Put your homemaking and protesting skills to the test with thirty-five girl-powered, easy-to-make, kickass projects such as: "e;Snowflake"e; knitted wristers"e;Bleeding Heart"e; T-shirtClear vinyl protest tote bag to speed up security screeningsThe Pussyhat as knitted hats, holiday ornaments, throw pillows, and cat beds';Nasty Nag' zippered pouchWell read bookmarksAnd More! Take politics into your own hands, literally, and craft your message out into the world. Including an essay and quotes on the history and importance of craftivism, Crafting the Resistance is the ultimate book for political crafters, DIY activists, empowered protestors, and any womanor manwho is part of the resistance.

Autor

Lara Neel sews, knits, and cares about freedom, democracy, women’s rights, indigenous rights, and LBGTQIA equality. She is the author of Sock Architecture and blogs at math4knitters.blogspot.com. She lives in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Heather Marano is an anthropologist and archaeologist. She studies textiles in western and nonwestern cultures and teaches classes on knitting, spinning, gardening, and natural dyeing of fibers and fabrics. She blogs at themerryspinster.com and lives in Millbrae, California.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
• Schlagworte: activism • Activist • all skill levels • Art and Crafts • badass • badge • Bandana • better world • Black lives matter • bleeding heart • cat bed • Civil Rights • clear tote bag • clitoris • Clutch • Community • Covfefe • Craftivism • craftivist • DC • Donald Trump • DYI • easy-to-make • Elizabeth Warren • empowered • Empowerment • Equality • Felt • felted • Felting • Feminism • feminist • feminist crafts • feminist knits • Girl Power • hair clip • Hillary Clinton • holiday ornament • Home • homemade • iron • irreverent • knits • LGBTQ • March • Meaningful • misogyny • mug cozy • mug rug • nasty woman • nevertheless she persisted • patriarchal society • Peace • PIN • political knitting • Pouch • Power • project ideas • Projects • Protest • protestors • pussyhat • Resist • reverse-applique • Revolution • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • sewing • Sexism • sexist • smashing the patriarchy • special snowflake • stereotypes • stitch • Subversive • subversive crafts • Suffrage • the resistance • throw pillow • tote bag • T-Shirt • uterus • Vagina • Vulva • water bottle carrier • women’s march • Women’s rights • yarn bomb • ZIP • zippers
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-3139-3 / 1510731393
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-3139-4 / 9781510731394