Curse-free designs include slogans like “Smash the patriarchy,” “Cats not catcalls” with an outline of a cat, and “Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man.” Other patterns include phrases that gained political notoriety during the Trump years: “Resist,” “Nasty woman” and “Bad Hombre.” “Women don’t owe you shit,” reads another. The book includes patterns that use the same four-letter word to tell you what to do with internalized misogyny, or how feminist to be. In a recent interview, she said the idea for the book, which was published in 2019, rose from her outrage over what she saw as affronts to women’s rights during the Trump presidency. Rohr, 36, learned cross-stitch from her mother as a child. The company said it would no longer discard books. The retailer apologized for throwing the books in the trash and said it had ordered additional copies to sell on its website with the disclaimer “Warning: Contains adult language.” “Had this same book not had the four explicit patterns in it, it would still be on display in our stores as planned,” Michaels said. But last month, Michaels, the large crafts retailer in the United States, became an unlikely source of controversy when it ordered stores to trash a book of cross-stitch patterns with feminist messages, some of which contained salty language.Īs Michaels locations were stocking the book, titled “Feminist Cross-Stitch,” for Women’s History Month this month, at least two employees noticed that four of the 40 patterns contained a specific obscenity, according to the company. Hunkered down because of the pandemic, craft activists have recently drawn inspiration from challenges to equality, social justice and gender rights. Pink hats were fashioned into protest icons for the Women’s March on Washington in 2017.
In 2014, women got out their knitting needles and started the Yarn Mission after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
In the 1980s, a massive quilt adorned with the names of people who had died from AIDS was used to spotlight government inaction on the disease. For years, stories of social revolutions have been told with needle and thread.
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