Performance Artist and "Craftivist" Has New, Innovative, 100% Novel Way of Drawing Attention to Herself: Involving Her Vagina

I would never have seen this coming. A female artist using her vagina as a prop? Why, I never. Where do these geniuses come up with these startling new ideas I've seen six thousand times this past year?

So, thanks to @laurww (I guess...), a woman who knits Vaginal Yarn. Yes, vaginal yarn. She puts a skein of yarn up her foo and then draws it out as she knits.

Why? Because Patriarchy or Male Gaze or Negative Body Image or Vulva Pride You Guys. She claims, for the seventy billionth time, that people feel "fear and revulsion" towards the vulva, which is why it's Art and Stuff You Guys to knit a muff muffler.

You know, the usual airheaded crap. Do artists feel any need any more to explore a new thought?

The article itself is on HuffPo, and is somewhere between Safe For Work and Not Safe For Work. The video that accompanies the article is Not Safe for Work (you can see bits of her foo, and she mentions knitting with... wet yarn).

You make the call.

And... Open Thread. Weird thing to say in this context.

But I'm sick, and I'm done for the night. I'm going to nap.

posted by Ace at 06:36 PM

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