Hinda Mandell - Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats

Shona Bettany is a professor in the Liverpool Business School at Liverpool John Moores University in England. Her research on consumerism and family life has been published in European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Consumption Markets and Cultures, Advances in Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Management, and Marketing Theory.

Gargi Bhaduri (PhD, University of Missouri) is an assistant professor with the Fashion School at Kent State University. Her research interests include sustainable supply chain issues, communication strategies in the supply chain, information processing, and branding. Her current research program focuses on creating/strengthening competitive advantages for consumer-driven businesses through effective communication between different parties in the product supply chain, particularly, between apparel retailers and consumers. She uses quantitative, qualitative, and psychophysiological methods in her work. She has successfully published in peer-reviewed journals such as Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, Journal of Product and Brand Management, Journal of Marketing Communications, and Journal of Consumer Marketing. In her spare time, she loves to travel and explore new cultures.

Anne Bruder is an associate professor of English at Berea College in Kentucky, where she primarily teaches nineteenth-century American literature and culture. She specializes in the history of womens learning, collective memory studies, epistolarity, life-writing, the poetics of display, and fictions of education. She has published recent essays in The New England Quarterly, English Literature in Transition, and The Michigan Historical Review. When not reading about nineteenth-century crafters, Bruder is pleasurably plying her own needles or planting her own garden.

Hannah Bush is a PhD candidate at the University of South Floridas Department of Communication, where she specializes in Organizational Communication. Her research examines issues of intersecting identities, power, and resistance in contexts related to gender and work. In addition to research, she teaches public speaking. In her spare time, she enjoys embroidery and sewing.

Sarah Corbett is an award-winning activist, Ashoka Fellow, Creative Director of the global Craftivist Collective, and author of How to Be A Craftivist: The Art of Gentle Protest. She is a weekly online agony aunt for activists columnist for Lush.com called The Activist Whisperer and a consultant on her unique gentle protest methodology. Corbett has helped change government laws and business policies as well as hearts and minds through her campaigning approach. She grew up in a low-income area of Liverpool in an activist family campaigning on local and global issues. She has worked as a professional activism manager for over a decade for Oxfam GB, Christian Aid, and the UK Department for International Development. Creating products and tools for individuals and groups around the world, she has also worked with charities such as Save the Children and Unicef, arts institutions such as Tate and V&A among others, and focuses on reaching new audiences with unusual allies such as Secret Cinema and Tatty Devine. As well as teaching around the world, her solo exhibition Gentle Protest has been exhibited in Stockholm, Helsinki, and London so far and her TED.com talk of the day: Activism Needs Introverts has been viewed over a million times so far. Her new book, How to Be a Craftivist: The Art of Gentle Protest, is now available in the United Kingdom and United States (Penguin Random House). Corbett is currently focusing on creating The Gentle Protest Lab as a place to research and practice new ways of doing activism in a quieter, more attractive, kinder, and deeply engaging way.

Shannon DeHoff is a MEd student at the Pennsylvania State University (Class of 2020), where she studies higher education and is pursuing minors in both sociology and womens, gender, and sexuality studies. She works in the Gender Equity Center on campus as their graduate assistant, where she advises peer education groups and creates and assesses programming on sexual and domestic violence and prevention, as well as other gender-related issues. Her research interests include: feminist pedagogies; social thought; diversity, equity, and inclusion; systems of oppression; ethical leadership; and student development.

Donna Druchunas is obsessed with her family history, the history of knitting, and the ways in which knitting can be used to change the world. She is the author of many knitting books, including Arctic Lace: Knitting Projects and Stories Inspired by Alaskas Native Knitters and The Art of Lithuanian Knitting. She is currently working on a graphic novel called Tangled, which is about her search for her familys roots in Eastern Europe told through the lens of knitting. Druchunas has taught knitting workshops in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and she holds annual retreats in her home state of Vermont.

Toni Eagar , PhD, is a lecturer in marketing at the Australian National University Research School of Management. Her research focuses on issues of consumption communities, space/place, and celebrity. Key current projects relate to the use and presentation of spaces and the relationship between consumers, celebrities, and the marketplace. Her research has been published in European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, and Research in Consumer Behavior. She considers organizing a session that got attendees to knit at the Consumer Culture Theory Conference to be a career highlight.

Elaine Fishwick is a freelance researcher/writer and university lecturer. She is currently working on an international project examining the impact of neoliberalism on the changing role of not-for-profit organizations in advocacy work and broader democratic engagement. Her main areas of research interests are in access to justice, social justice, and human rights. She has recently coauthored the book Crime, Justice and Human Rights and co-edited the Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights. She crafts in her spare time and with her chapter coauthor Alyce McGovern contributed a panel to the international #UDHRquiltProject.

Tal Fitzpatrick is an artist, craftivist, researcher, and community development worker based in Melbourne, Australia. Driven by the power of craft, specifically appliqu quilting, to solicit the sharing of stories, her work looks to drive positive social change by engaging diverse groups of people in complex conversations. Fitzpatricks craftivism revolves around the coordination of socially engaged projects such as the PM Please Quilt Project (20152017) and the #UDHRquiltProject (20162018), which was launched on UN Day in 2018 at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra. Fitzpatrick holds a PhD from the Victorian College of the Arts at Melbourne University (2018) and a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honors from Griffith University (2010). Her publications include a chapter on community disaster resilience in Disasters and Public Health: Planning and Response (B. Clements et al., 2016) and a self-published craftivism handbook titled Craftivism: A Manifesto/Methodology (2018). You can find her online: www.talfitzpatrick.com.

Betsy Greer has been publically talking about how craft and activism can work together since 2003. After getting her MA at Goldsmiths College in 2004, where her dissertation was about knitting and community development, she continued researching how people have been using the relationship between art, craft, and activism to get their voices heard. Among essays, articles, and other media, she wrote