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InarticulateQuilter

Another media outlet "discovers" #Craftivism

I do wish these stories wouldn't always focus on whether craft activism is performative. I make things because I cannot not make things. Other aspects of my life, including my political feelings, influence what I make. That's what art fucking is, but call it craft and suddenly everybody and their mother has a shitty opinion as to it's worth 🤷‍♀️

Paywall:
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/483036/knitting-quilting-melt-the-ice-hat-history-crafting

Paywall free:
https://archive.is/WCrAc

#Quilting #Knitting

Want to fight fascism? Join a knitting circle.

Resistance crafting is about more than pussyhats now.

Vox

Brody Berg 1d ago

@inarticulatequilter thank you for being awesome

InarticulateQuilter 1d ago

@Brodyberg you are too sweet

Piggleston Pecanpants 1d ago

@inarticulatequilter I was just thinking about this. Craft used to mean something noble. A person with a craft was trained to efficiently and competently practice their craft and be an integral contributor to society. Now the only time it's considered that way is when we utter that phrase "practice their craft." Now the word craft brings images of finger painting and scrap booking. True craft is art and art refects who we are as a species. Craft is important and vital to our survival.

InarticulateQuilter 1d ago

@LilPecan well said! This part "A person with a craft was trained to efficiently and competently practice their craft and be an integral contributor to society" reminds of the famously non-political (that's snark) guilds of the Middle Ages that evolved into again famously non-political (more snark) unions. Separating today's crafters from this history and calling them performative is infuriating

Piggleston Pecanpants 1d ago

@inarticulatequilter Yes. Yes it is infuriating.

Manuèle Ducret 1d ago

@inarticulatequilter
Yeah I am not reading yet another article demeaning our creations.

Call it art, craft, whatever. What we do with our brain, our words, our hands and body, our heart our passion our opinions and our soul is here because we can, we want, we need and will continue to express ourselves.
They can choose to listen or to close their eyes. To say the stupidest and more unoriginal platitudes, or to ask meaningful questions.
We will persist.

#resistance #craft #women #art

InarticulateQuilter 1d ago

@Filambulle I appreciate this passionate response. Even though you didn't read the article, you nailed the counter arguments well

Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)1d ago

@inarticulatequilter @Filambulle Art springs from personal expression. The personal is political. How can art escape?

(Btw, craft is just a word to demean art made by people in less powerful situations)

Manuèle Ducret 1d ago

@artcollisions @inarticulatequilter
Why *would* art escape?

Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)1d ago

@Filambulle @inarticulatequilter Exactly

InarticulateQuilter 1d ago

@artcollisions beautifully put - and without swears 😉

Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)1d ago

@inarticulatequilter <3! @Filambulle

Manuèle Ducret 1d ago

@artcollisions @inarticulatequilter
And I agree about the division between art/powerful craft/subordinate is the axis used to demean the latter. Stupidly, I’ll say if I am asked. However you define them, they go hand in hand in my view. Two side of one coin.

Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)1d ago

@Filambulle @inarticulatequilter hmmm more like two ends of the same rope. Is that an idiom? It is now!

Manuèle Ducret 1d ago

@inarticulatequilter
Did I say theses articles are often terribly unoriginal? 😂

iryna 🇺🇦1d ago

@inarticulatequilter the author of the article completely missed the point of what they were describing: art is always political, regardless of who makes it, how it's made and for what purpose.

InarticulateQuilter 1d ago

@iryna that’s why these stories are irritating me so much, the authors are all just lazily repeating the same old anti-art claims, missing the point as you said, over and over and over again

They keep saying craftivism is useless, protests are useless, voting is useless and meanwhile millions and millions of people are out there changing the world - that’s the point. You don’t get anywhere doing nothing

Ugh, I may have responded and missed *your* point. Sorry, I’m just so frustrated by it all!

iryna 🇺🇦1d ago

@inarticulatequilter nah I 100% agree with you.

I am the same way - I can't not create, it is physically impossible for me. I literally have lapses in memory for months/years when I didn't make anything. Making is living. And when people whose hobby is watching netflix talk about "crafts" it just is aggravating. I have to fight people doing nothing for my right to do something every day.