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The Craftivist Collective Handbook
Projects, Stories and Methods for Your Gentle Protests
by Sarah P. Corbett
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Pub Date 3 Sep 2024 | Archive Date 16 May 2024
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Description
Twenty Gentle Protest craft projects to help you make a positive difference in our world.
If we want our world to be more beautiful, kind and fair, can we make our activism more beautiful, kind and fair? ‘Gentle Protest’ is a unique methodology of strategic, compassionate and visually intriguing activism using handicrafts as a tool. Since its creation in 2009, the award-winning global Craftivist Collective has helped change laws, policies, hearts and minds around the world as well as expand the view of what activism can be.
Dreams inspire positive action, so stitch a Dream Cloud to hang up at home or work and prompt you to think past a problem to the solution. Sew a Gentle Nudge Label to help keep your conscience sharp and your spirit strong. Craft your own Mini Protest Banner to turn heads and influence change, or fly solidarity’s flag for those suffering as a result of the world’s injustices. Stitch a Handmade Hedgerow to champion one of the solutions to the climate crisis or if you are nervous about protesting in public or if there’s a ban on public rallies where you live, let a doll speak your truth by creating a Toy Protest.
This handbook is for everyone, wherever you are in the world: whether you are a skilled crafter or a burnt-out activist, an introvert, highly sensitive person, or struggling with anxiety or overwhelm. These 20 projects and tools use the slow, soothing and thoughtful process of craft to help channel feelings of sadness, anger or powerlessness into proactive, encouraging effective actions to help make hope possible.
Advance Praise
Praise for The Craftivist Collective Handbook
'Everyone involved in craft can see how powerful it can be as a force for positive change. Sarah's approach of using craft as a gentle form of protest brilliantly harnesses this power to give a voice to people from all backgrounds and levels of experience'
Jay Blades
'A powerful message to create, create, create'
Robin Ince
'Quietly powerful and fantastically eye-catching'
Jenny Eclair
'I’m a massive fan of Corbett’s strategic, thoughtful and powerful craftivism and Gentle Protest approach. It’s discerning, disarming, an antidote to so much out there, and most importantly – it works!'
Helen Pankhurst CBE, Senior Adviser CARE International, Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University and Great-Granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst
Praise for How to be a Craftivist
'This is mindful activism... thought-out, strategic and engaging'
Observer
'There is something very positive about the energy and commitment of people in this creative world'
Independent
'I love what Sarah does! It's quiet activism for everyone including introverts'
Jon Ronson
'Sarah Corbett mixes an A-grade mind with astonishing creativity and emotional awareness'
Lucy Siegle
'How to be a Craftivist manages that rare feat of stitching together the personal and the political in a way that is both convincing and empowering'
Roman Krznaric
'Sarah Corbett shows us the extraordinary relationship between doing and being'
Milton Glaser
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781800182509 |
PRICE | US$28.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 256 |