Nerd is my Gender
What's yours?
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I sit here crocheting: the (genderqueer) female academic
I have these thoughts a lot too, even while crocheting.
The female academic gets it from both sides–from other female academics and from male academics as well. The female-bodied genderqueer academic gets it…from four sides?
What’s a genderqueer biologically female academic to do?
I sit here crocheting. I’m using up my leftover yarn balls to make a pile of winter hats for my friends. My friends are mostly queer. Some are genderqueer. Some are transgendered. Some are gender normative. All get cold in the winter. (This is one of many traits that all bodies share.)
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Nyan Cat Scarf by AndyTehNerd
Amigurumi pop tart cat on a rainbow crochet scarf. Enable annotations for captions and notes.
Pattern by Mevlinn Gusick, available on Etsy at http://www.etsy.com/shop/MevvSan
Music is Ghosts 1 track 7, by Nine Inch Nails: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJHABPMb7Uw
Guest appearance by Nyan Cat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4 -
Crochet Your Way to Mental Health
I have ADHD and there is nothing like yarn craft to calm my thoughts. Bob agrees:
What I need is something that will provide some tranquility in my life; something to give me a stress-relief outlet without turning my liver into a charcoal briquette. It’s got to be something creative, something constructive, but not too complicated. Something that will keep my hands and mind occupied, but not a whole new source of leisure-related stress. You’ve probably figured out by now the obvious answer I came up with: crochet.
What’s that you say? Men don’t crochet? Well, I guess that memo never made it to the men who have been spotted going into Loopy, the new yarn store downtown.
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I take orders on these and more! Profits go to the Skeptical Society of St Louis.
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Solar System Scarf
Display your love of astronomy and passion for science with this handmade scarf!
Featuring:
-all 8 planets
-our moon
-the rings of Saturn and Uranus
-the great red spot of Jupiter
-other heavenly bodies by request
100% soft acrylic yarn. Sizes and colors are representative of the actual planet appearances, with some artistic creativity taken.
All profits go to support the Skeptical Society of St Louis.
Genderqueer with a touch of happy humanism.
