Crafted with pride : queer craft and activism in contemporary Britain / edited by Daniel Fountain.
Publisher: Bristol : Intellect Books, 2023Description: 164 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781789387742
- 1789387744
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| 745.501 ADA The invention of craft / | 745.501 BUS Extra/ordinary : craft and contemporary art / | 745.501 ELI Women and craft / | 745.501 FOU Crafted with pride : queer craft and activism in contemporary Britain / | 745.501 FRA On craftsmanship : towards a new Bauhaus / | 745.501 KNE Expert: understanding the path to mastery | 745.501 KOR Why we make things and why it matters : the education of a craftsman / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Crafting identity and community
Thread One: Fashioning the self Lesbian activism and crafted fashion / Eleanor Medhurst
Trans craft and the Museum of Transology / Lois Stone
Thread Two: Pride, publics, and preservation Protest with pride: lesbians and gay men support the miners / Mark Etheridge
Pride of place: remembering, collecting, and preserving Islington’s LGBTQ+ heritage / Seán McGovern
(Re)Collecting queer craft: ownership, identity, and remembrance in queer zine collecting / Allan Madden
Thread Three: Collaborative craft Navigating queerness and trauma through collaborative craft / Dan Vo in conversation with Youcef Hadjazi
Stitching together: the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt and its oral histories / Daniel Fountain ; plus, an in-conversation with Graeme Lavery and Karina Thompson
Thread Four: Contemporary practices Making things perfectly queer / Matt Smith
A tower to say goodbye / Tanoa Sasraku
Quilting intergenerational intimacies in Fisch’s Rebel Dykes Archive / Sarah-Joy Ford
Queer voices / Rachael House
NO PROTECTION / Raisa Kabir
Explores queer craft and the material cultures of LGBTQ+ activism in Britain since the 1980s. From handmade clothing and protest banners to radical self-published zines and manifestos, there is a long history of using craft and DIY processes to explore identities, bring communities together, and encourage social and political change.