International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
Table 2 Evidence of craftivism concepts through maker–wearer in vivo codes
From: Unifying yet dividing: voices of pussyhat maker–wearers who participated in the 2017 Women’s Marches
Respondents described the activity of pussy hat making and wearing for the purpose of… | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Concept | In vivo code | Location of March | Age |
Resist injustice | It is a pussy hat representing and in defiance of the President's previous comment | Chicago | 53 |
I have been knitting hats for friends as my way to promote the cause | Washington, D.C | 58 | |
You can’t grab this. We now call ourselves the resistance | Boston | 57 | |
It’s a protest of trumps crude remarks about women | Columbus, OH | 63 | |
It was part of my protest ‘uniform.’ People wore it to make a statement, to assert power in a word and consequently reclaim power that 45 tries to take away from women | Boston | 46 | |
That women will band together to protect each other from injustice and harm | Washington, D.C. | 36 | |
Make individual voices stronger | I feel strongly that the new president and those who he surrounds himself with are anti women and I want women’s voices to be heard | Madison, WI | 73 |
Women’s rights and to remind the president we cannot be ignored simply because we did not vote for him | Washington, D.C. | 47 | |
I wanted to show the new administration that I was watching and would not be silent | Washington, D.C. | 64 | |
Community building with like-minded people | Solidarity with all other women | New York City | 47 |
[The pussyhat is a] cheeky and humorous comment about the sexism and misogyny of our current President; plus an “in solidarity” kind of statement with other groups | Washington, D.C. | 50 | |
I’m a stay home mom but left the babies at home with my husband and met up with 4 girlfriends from my previous job. We met up with even more friends at the march | Denver | 44 | |
Solidarity, mostly! I needed a hat because it was cold. I wanted a hat that would add to the sea of pink on the national mall | Washington, D.C. | 40 | |
Cope with negative life occurrences | Like so many women, I am a maker and the symbolism of taking traditional women’s work to flip DT’s lewd comments was perfect | Denver | 44 |
Pussy I think is an attempt at a proud reclaiming of a word that is often used in a derogatory manner | Washington, D.C. | 21 | |
Pussy grabs back! | Washington, D.C. | 52 | |
Emblematic of women will not be negatively defined by a word used pejoratively | Washington, D.C. | 46 | |
To let the world know that women can be powerful too and to recapture the word for our purpose | Washington, D.C. | 64 | |
women owning the word pussy | Washington, D.C. | 53 | |
Focus on positive future | I marched because I needed to give hope to others at risk, even when I felt little hope myself in the face of the powers of greed and viciousness that currently prevail | Santa Fe, NM | 58 |
So women and men do not suffer from women losing what women before us have worked so hard to get | Chicago | 53 | |
To stand up for the generations to come. For their water, for their reproductive rights, for the Earth that we will leave them | Santa Fe, NM | 53 | |
To take a stand against bigotry, misogyny, corruption and environmentally damaging policies | Park City, UT | 46 | |
For my 10 year old daughter | Los Angeles | 41 | |