This is a DOWNLOADABLE CROCHET PATTERN, not a completed product.
LANGUAGE: This pattern is written in ENGLISH and uses US terminology.
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Easy
YARN: Worsted Weight/Size 4, Sport/Size 2, & Thread/Size 0
HOOKS: K/6.5 mm, F/3.75 mm, & C/2.75 mm
COMPLETED SIZE:
- Height: 10 in / 25.4 cm
- Width: 5 in /12.7 cm
- Depth: 5 in /12.7 cm
PLUS: Several full-color instructional images!
and . . . STICKERS!
In addition to the crochet pattern file, your purchase includes a hi-res .jpeg file of a Vote Meow sticker template you can use to create your own stickers.
INSPIRATION
In honor of women of color like Ida B. Wells, Mary Church Terrell, and Nannie Helen Burroughs who worked for women’s suffrage and the 19th amendment’s passage -- in spite of their liberal white feminist contemporaries’ racism -- and who deserve to be included in an all-too-frequently white-washed history of feminist activism in the U.S., I present Vote Meow.
As a mashup of Hello Kitty and early 20th century suffragettes of color, Vote Meow’s features are both cute and critical -- highlighting and reproving women of color’s historical and continuing erasure in U.S. political movements. She has a mouth (Hello Kitty is famously missing one); plum-colored yarn for the cat body (Hello Kitty is, hello, white); dark purple yarn for hair; and turn-of-the-century-style attire in lilac and lavender-colored yarn.
To distinguish womanism from (white) feminism in her first nonfiction collection, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, Alice Walker writes “Womanism is to feminism as purple is to lavender.” This distinction defines womanism, practiced by women of color, as a more holistic and inclusive form of activism than, (white) feminism. It also characterizes (white) feminism as a compartmentalized off-shoot of Womanism.
DON'T FORGET!
10% of all profits from sales of this item are donated to a rotating list of organizations and individuals doing oh-so-necessary social justice work. Stitched Whimsy is currently donating to Black Lives Matter, a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. Check them out here: https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/ !
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