Knit one, stitch two, protest three! Examining the historical and contemporary politics of crafting
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Crafts are often understood as conservative and solitary pursuits of the elderly but crafts have long been used for mutual aid and political expression. This project examines two cases where crafts are used as instruments of political resistance. Started in 1987, the AIDS quilt was to remember those lost to the pandemic but its purpose was not limited to honouring the dead but was also a powerful tool for prevention, awareness and to highlight governmental inaction; The second case examines contemporary “craftivists,” activists that use crafts in subversive, political ways. This project is informed by de Certeau's work on the tactical nature of everyday life, where people subvert the structure of “culture” in order to make it their own. These two cases explore where craft (as art) and crafty (cunning) intersect and become a meaningful tool for political action.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it