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Make + Risk = Craftivism: A Roundtable and Yarnbomb Project for Babel 2017

For the 2017 Babel Working Group Meeting in Reno , I'm organizing a project for The Material Collective.  The full proposal appears below.  Get in touch if you are interested in participating! Make + Risk = Craftivism: A Roundtable and Yarnbomb Project A dominant symbol of the January 2017 Women’s March on Washington was the pink pussyhat: a knit or crochet hat constructed in such a way that cat ears appear on the wearer’s head.   Large numbers of women participated in making pussyhats and wore them at marches in Washington and other cities.   Yet the hats were also a focus for critique, as the product of a white middle-class feminism that often fails to take into account the experiences of other women, and as excluding transwomen in particular through their reference to biological sex.   In many ways, this combination of responses to the pussyhats mirrors the responses to the March itself.   It also demonstrates both the productive potential and the po