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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

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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.

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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!

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iryna 🇺🇦

@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.