Activism
Why Crafting is, and Always Has Been, a Rebellious Act
From suffragists’ embroidered banners calling for votes for women to the potent symbolism of pink pussy hats, stitchwork has always been a distinctly feminist way of rebelling.
Katherine Dykstra is the author of "What Happened to Paula: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood." Her essays have been published in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Poets and Writers.