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A pussyhat is a pink, crafted brimless hat or cap, created in large numbers by women involved with the United States 2017 Women's March. They are the result of the Pussyhat Project, a nationwide effort initiated by Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman, a screenwriter and architect located in Los Angeles, to create pink hats to be worn at the march. [1]
The Pussyhat Project was a nationwide effort initiated by Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman, a screenwriter and architect located in Los Angeles, to create pussyhats, pink hats to be worn at the march for visual impact. [150]
Similarly, the Pussyhat Project from the Women's March in 2017 and 2018 has been criticized for being exclusionary and primarily attended by cisgender white women. Craftivism, and the Pussyhat Project in particular, has come to embody white, liberal feminism, which is historically not intersectional. [58]
Rob Walker, The D.I.Y. Revolutionaries Of The Pussyhat Project, The New Yorker, 25 January 2017; Alexandra Hart, Knitters Turn to Craftivism to Protest Trump's Presidency, Texas Standard, 20 January 2017; Stephanie Buck, Women Craftivists are Reclaiming Domesticity as a Silent Form of Protest, Medium, 22 November 2016
Dunn took part in the Pussyhat Project, [40] knitting "pussyhats" for friends, including Erin Smith, AD of Soulo Theatre, and Savoy Howe, founder of the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club, both of whom led a Toronto contingent to Washington, DC for the protests. [41] In 2019, Dunn created a crocheted rainbow yarn bomb or "tree sweater."
Ann Lewis in 2017. Ann Lewis (born 1981 Duluth, Minnesota) [1] [2] is a multidisciplinary activist artist often working in public spaces. She focuses her attention on social justice and environmental issues and is best known for her politically charged [3] and sometimes uncommissioned takeovers of public space. [4]
The March for Science (formerly known as the Scientists' March on Washington) [6] was an international series of rallies and marches held on Earth Day.The inaugural march was held on April 22, 2017, in Washington, D.C., and more than 600 other cities across the world.
A hat is an item of clothing which is worn on the head – a kind of headgear.. Hats often have a brim, and may be either placed on the head, or in the case of some women's hats, secured with hat-pins (which are pushed through the hat and the hair).