Crafting Dissent

Pussyhats quite literally created a sea of pink the day after Donald J. Trump became the 45th president of the United States in January 2017. But there was nothing new about women crafting as a means of dissent. This is the first book that shows how craft, has also been used as a subversive tool throughout history and up to the present day in 2018.

Hinda Mandell is associate professor in the School of Communication at RIT in New York, and is editor of Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); cocurator and coeditor of Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism; a coeditor of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election; the author of Sex Scandals, Gender and Power in Contemporary American Politics and coeditor of Scandal in a Digital Age. Mandell's website is omghinda.com, and she's on Twitter: @hindamandell and @crochetactivism, and Instagram: @crochetactivism. Mandell is passionate about organizing crowd-created yarn installations in public spaces that are connected to the history of a region's social-reform movements.