Crocheting My Feelings
Planning to crochet a back panel and turn this into a pillow
Edit:
Yes, I am aware that not all men are shit.
This pillow was a way for me to process feelings with a humourous edge after my boyfriend of 4 years cheated on me after I was diagnosed with cancer in December. I didn't find out until he broke up with me after I'd physically healed from the life saving hysterectomy I had to have earlier this year that left me traumatized on a few different levels.
Further Edit: I crocheted a commonly used phrase with humour and irony as a way to process grief, betrayal, and being treated badly during a period of significant trauma.
The phrase is obviously not nuanced. It is short, dismissive, and exaggerated - intentionally so. Humour and venting often rely on exaggeration. I did not realize my red yarn pillow would require a companion thesis on gender relations.
It would be unreasonable, particularly in this context, to conclude that I literally believe all men are worthless.
Crocheting this was probably among the less destructive ways I could have processed anger and hurt.
If people would prefer to turn a vent project into a broader conversation about language, feminism, semantics, or cultural discourse, that’s their prerogative. That was never the project I was making.
The project was: someone hurt me deeply, and I made fibre art about it.