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Crafting a Better World

Inspiration and DIY Projects for Craftivists

Diana Weymar

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Crafting a Better World is a new kind of call to action: a guidebook for combatting fatigue and frustration with the handmade.

Curated by Diana Weymar, she knows what it means to meld craft and activism. On January 2018, she stitched “I am a very stable genius” (a Donald Trump quote) into a piece of her grandmother’s abandoned needlework from the 1960s and posted it to Instagram. Since then, she’s turned her embroidery practice into a material record of the trials facing the US and became a leading voice in the movement to save its democracy.

Featuring essays, exclusive profiles of well-known creatives and projects that readers can create by themselves or with their communities, this book is a means to stay engaged, make stuff and hold ourselves together as we navigate an uncertain personal and political landscape. Crafting a Better World is a response to a time when so many feel, in equal measure, deep anxiety and deep hope. So pick up a needle, a pen, a spatula – anything – and craft the change you want to see in the world.