InarticulateQuilter1d ago

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
Show threadManuèle Ducret

@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

Apr 4 at 9:02pmWeb
Show threadInarticulateQuilter1d ago
@Filambulle I appreciate this passionate response. Even though you didn't read the article, you nailed the counter arguments well
Show threadGranny 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)

Show threadManuèle Ducret1d ago
@artcollisions @inarticulatequilter
Why *would* art escape?
Show threadGranny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)1d ago
@Filambulle @inarticulatequilter Exactly
Show threadInarticulateQuilter1d ago

@artcollisions beautifully put - and without swears 😉

@Filambulle

Show threadGranny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)1d ago
@inarticulatequilter <3! @Filambulle
Show threadManuèle Ducret1d 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.
Show threadGranny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)1d ago
@Filambulle @inarticulatequilter hmmm more like two ends of the same rope. Is that an idiom? It is now!
Show threadManuèle Ducret1d ago
@inarticulatequilter
Did I say theses articles are often terribly unoriginal? 😂