There seems to be a lot of reinvention of craftivism, especially with increased access to the internet. The Pussyhat movement is actually a great example of modern-day craftivism. This movement began when the co-creators, Jayna Zweiman and Krista Suh, took a knitting class in their local yarn store and instantaneously were hooked on the hobby. They bonded over their passion for women’s rights, with discussions about how they could take action while participating in local knitting circles. Because of the upcoming Women’s March’s in January of 2017, they realized that they wanted to make a statement, and create a physical object that would stun the news and create a statement. That is how the PussyHat came to be. And, almost as if it happened overnight, millions of people men, women, and children, were knitting up a storm of pink square-shaped hats, with tips that resembled the ears of a cat. The name came to be as a protest to the “the vulgar comments Donald Trump had made about the freedom he felt to grab women’s genitals, to de-stigmatize the word “pussy” and transform it into one of empowerment, and to highlight the design of the hat’s ’pussycat ears’” (The PussyHat Story). The impact of the PussyHat, as well as access to the pattern, would not have been possible without social media and Ravelry, the online website for knitters and crocheters.

The beauty of this activism is that it was an opportunity for both marchers and non-marchers to participate in something bigger than themselves. The first PussyHat to have been knit was inducted into the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK, and was described as, “global symbol of female solidarity and the power of collective action,” (Victoria and Albert Museum, n.d.).