Common Threads

Abstract

Abstract The final interchapter culminates in a practice-based discussion of the archive as a feminist argument about craft and community—foregrounding the chaos and urgency of connection. Even when working in solitude, there is a communal dimension to the history of craft practices that brings people together and reveals collectives (bonds, recognition, solidarity) in places readers might not expect, as writers respond to craft’s capacity for disorientation and empowerment. How might fragments, glitches, and other traces of transmedia craft processes reveal important sites of queer vulnerability? The interchapter concludes the book with a reading of craft’s associative and serendipitous capacity to network historical and activist contexts.