Making: A Feminist Praxis

Dates: May 12th to May 15th, 2025

Instructors: Kim Martin and Kiera Obbard

Location: TBA

Description: 

This course will introduce participants to a feminist praxis of making through a combination of theory and praxis. Over four days, participants will read and discuss a variety of texts related to feminist making, across topic areas including weaving, poetry film, zine making, and cross-stitching, and then apply these learnings with hands-on maker activities. In each activity, the digital will be represented in either the mode of creation (i.e., via a digital platform), or in the final output. Through this approach, participants will learn to apply creative analytic practices to their engagement with feminism, data, and the digital. This course will also discuss how these approaches can be implemented into pedagogy. At the end of the workshop, participants will have a collection of artistic objects (some digital, some material) and, to draw on Ahmed’s feminist toolkit, a new feminist maker toolkit of both theory and praxis for using creative outputs for speaking on feminist issues, raising dissent, and surviving together in challenging times.

Intended Audience:

The intended audience are creative practitioners, faculty, students, or anyone wanting to learn to implement their creative practice into research and pedagogy. Participants of any skill level can attend the workshop.