Third wave craftivism?
Columbia Chronicle Online
As more and more hip, urban, young women pick up knitting needles and take a seat in sewing circles, the crafting trend is, for some, turning into a political act. In response to this sudden surge in crafty culture, Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media brought four panelists with extensive DIY backgrounds to the Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., to discuss the possible link between feminism and crafting.
DIY, or Do It Yourself, has been around forever. From the good ol’ days when men and women made their own clothes because there was no other option to the Great Depression, when paying people to make things was simply not feasible, people have been “doing it themselves” for years.
The panel, “Crafty Culture: Feminism, Activism and the D-I-Y Ethic,” brought crafter and “DIY Trunk Show” founder Cinnamon Cooper, Time Out Chicago and former Venus DIY editor Annie Tomlin, painter and poet Alejandra Valera and former editor-in-chief of TENbyTEN magazine Annette Ferrara as moderators where they discussed the politics of craft. [more]
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