Monthly Archives for February 2016


March 25 2016 – ⇧⌘3: Screen Printing Workshop

“All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They’ve been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.” -Banksy   Join the Feminist MakerSpace on March 25 for a screen printing workshop. Jillian Round will use your images to make stencils and lead us through a workshop in which we screenprint on […]


Feb 19 2016 – Soft Activism 2.0

Join us on Friday, February 19, 2016 1pm – 2pm in ATC 3.705 Soft Activism 2.0 Join the Feminist Research Collective for our MakerSpace event, Soft Activism 2.0. UT Dallas undergraduate student Ciara Bryant will share her needlepoint artwork. Bryant’s presentation will be followed by hands-on needlepoint and crochet activities. Some needlepoint and crochet supplies […]



Recap: Soft Activism

On February 5, we held our first Feminist MakerSpace event of the Spring 2016 semester. The title was Soft Activism and the focus was on practices of crochet, knitting, and needlepoint in an activist context. Inspired by practices of guerilla knitting and yarn bombing, we explored software tools for making customized patterns and worked on […]