Craftivism

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Craftivism is a form of activism, typically for social justice, environmentalism or feminism, that is centred around practices of craft - especially handicrafts. Practitioners are known as craftivists.

[edit] Organizations

Organizations promoting and practising craftivism:

• Revolutionary Knitting Circle.

[edit] Literature

• Railla, Jean (2004). Get Crafty. Random House. ISBN 0-7679-1720-0. 
• Spencer, Amy (2005). DIY: The rise of lo-fi culture. Marion Boyars Publishers. ISBN 978-0714531052. 

[edit] External links

• Craftivism
• Counterfeit Crochet Project by Stephanie Syjuco
• Hacking Couture by Giana Gonzalez
• MicroRevolt by Cat Mazza
• Radical Cross Stitch
• Selfpassage - Subconstructive Fashion by Wronsov
• The Street Knit Project