JD Vance has one of those very “punchable faces”, you know?? And then he opens his mouth and you sorta want to set him on fire. Not literally, of course. Watching a room full of people who very obviously didn’t want to be there dish out a Jeb Bush style “please clap” reaction to his […]
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In the summer of 2017, 4000 low-income individuals living in Hamilton, Lindsay, and Thunder Bay were randomly selected to become part of the Basic Income Pilot, intended to test whether supplying a “basic income” was a better way to support people living in poverty vs the current system, which offers less than a living wage. […]
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SZ:: How much can you tell me about yourself as just sort of a general introduction? I know that you don’t want to give too much away. Any info or details or fine. AY:: I’m a female identifying feminist artist based in Montreal, Canada. In a nutshell my work is full of feminist rants, ambivalent […]
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When I first started conceptualizing the type of things that She Zine would cover, female-run indie business was very near the top of my list. It had been some of my main takeaways from other feminist rags, like Venus Zine and Bust. It had been through that inspiration that had me start my first business […]
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Who founded the “craftivist movement”? Who coined the term “craftivism”? Me. And not me. I started thinking about the connections between craft and activism in 2002 as part of a research proposal. I was talking about it to my knitting group and one of them said, “you could call it craftivism.” I went home and […]
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There were gasps, there were sobs… there were cheers and there were jeers. It doesn’t matter if you were from the U.S. coast or the bible belt or didn’t live in the U.S. – you probably had a pointed reaction to the results of the 2016 election. The next day (9th November 2016) was a somber […]
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