{"id":795,"date":"2014-07-21T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/21\/craftivism-now\/"},"modified":"2014-07-21T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:16:00","slug":"craftivism-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/21\/craftivism-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Craftivism Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craftivism.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craftivism.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"286\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10436\" \/><\/a>Are you ready to be inspired?  Like let&#8217;s go out and change the world right now, this minute, level of inspiration?  Then pull up a chair because have I found the book for you and it is all about crafting.  Yep, like needle and thread, yarn and bead, clay and paper crafting.  The book is called Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activismand it was edited by Betsy Greer, author of Knitting for Good!: A Guide to Creating Personal, Social, and Political Change Stitch by Stitchand she also runs the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Craftivism.com\"target=\"_blank\">Craftivism.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is craftivism?  It&#8217;s a term for crafting that is motivated by social or political activism.  Greer explains that the creation of things by hand leads to a better understanding of democracy, because it reminds us that we have power. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craftivism-Fat-Cats.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Craftivism-Fat-Cats.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10437\" \/><\/a>Craftivismis divided into four categories: Personal Threads, Refashioning Craft, Craft as a Political Mouthpiece, and Activating Communities.  Personal Threads features personal approaches to craft including the concept of guerrilla kindness and some really badass cross-stitchers and quilters.  Refashioning Craft discusses how you can use craft for clothing that can reflect beliefs by crafting resistance or making a statement such as a jewelry maker who creates in public and gives away the result.  The next section, Craft as a Political Mouthpiece, includes the AIDS Quilt, a knitted mouse activist, the work of the Adithi collective, and more.  Finally Activating Communities which shows how crafting can improve and empower communities be it by updated suffragette banners (there&#8217;s one for Robyn!) or making handmade basketball nets.<\/p>\n<p>Craftivismis a fascinating look at art, politics, crafts, and fashion.  The interviews and stories are inspiring and at times emotionally moving.  You&#8217;re going to want this book and then get ready to get engaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click in to learn about &#8220;Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism&#8221; edited by Betsy Greer.  Crafters of the world unite!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}