[Ads-l] Probably not a WOTY candidate, but...

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Jan 27 20:52:49 UTC 2017


“craftivist”, as in

The pink, knitted “pussyhat,” worn by thousands of protesters at the recent Women’s Marches, is part of a long craftivist tradition.

[caption for photo illustrating New Yorker piece on the “pussyhat project”, which my spellcheck keeps trying to correct to “pussycat”]:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-d-i-y-revolutionaries-of-the-pussyhat-project

I guess “cractivist” wouldn’t work for obvious reasons...

LH
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