craft + activism = craftivism.

And not the band Parliament, either. This video is from the folks over at the Craftivist Collective and features one of their recent campaigns. What I like about this video the most is that it shows the softer side of activism. No smashing or yelling or hatred or breaking things, just some honest voices (from [...]

You may have noticed that I haven’t updated here in awhile. That’s been due to two things… 1a. Working on some projects not directly related to craftivism, one of them, some communications work with the amazing non-profit seen in the video above, Emerge, which helps young sexually abused girls in Sri Lanka start their own [...]

Thanks to the world of Twitter, I came across the amazing below (featuring the equally amazing work of Sjors Vervoort last night thanks to fellow DC dweller @MosesHawk (go check out his work over here) ” Oh, and I’ve been woefully behind on keeping up to date here with craftivism-related links. No more, however, as [...]

As kids in school, we had to ask permission to do much of anything. We had to get a hall pass to do anything autonomous like go to the bathroom or the water fountain. We had to procure that pass and risk asking for it first. As adults we think we don’t need permission, but [...]

Last December when I was at Carrie Reichardt’s (amazing) house* in London, she showed me some of the pieces of work she had by her friend War Boutique. I was amazed at the way he incorporated his knowledge learned from creating “armour systems for the government,” into his art practice using, as he notes in [...]