Crip'd Fringe: Exploring Fringe as DIY Stim Joy Fashion Accessories

Workshop Leader: moira williams with DJ who girl (Kevin Gotkin)
https://www.nobodysfashionweek.com/moirawilliams

Date: Sunday, September 27
Time: 2pm New York/ 1pm Chicago/11am California/ 7pm London
Workshop Length: 2 ½ hours

Where: Zoom

Let’s tinker, hack and create together! As we celebrate ourselves and radical inclusion by creating fringed stim objects for sharing, wearing or accessorizing our body, cane, wheelchair, heating pad, backpack, etc. No sewing or sewing experience necessary!

From our shared space we will experiment with fringe as texture. Plus explore fringe as fashion, as stimulating and transformative edges supporting joy, care, celebratory resistance, crip knowing and making.

Our tinkering, hacking and exploring together aims to support us as we design and create simple fringed stim objects that meet, plus highlight our emotional and sensorial needs with any material we like and have around: stockings, gloves, tape, yarn, string, fruit rolls, pasta. Whatever brings you ~ or a loved one ~ joy, care and satisfying stim moments! 

At the end of our workshop we will invite anybody who likes to join us for an impromptu stim share show!

Celebratory groove maker DJ who girl (Kevin Gotkin) will weave our collective creativity into a dreamy sonic warp!

Prior to our workshop, moira will have a few examples and patterns to share as downloads here.

Materials: 
Anything you like that celebrates and supports you ~ joy, emotional + mind/body safety and deep exploration to create a stim object. From: fabric, felt, fruit rolls, ribbon, paper, knit hats, socks, stockings, gloves, old shirt collars,tape, yarn, ribbon, paper, string, pasta, colorful tape, makeup to fake eyelashes.

Possible tools:
Scissors, hole punch, thread, needle, safety pins, elmer's glue, hot glue gun, tape. 

Our workshop welcomes: all ages and all folx as we center self-identifying disabled, crip, d/Deaf, Mad, Sick, Low sighted, Blind and/or chronically ill people.

Accessibility: Open captioning, ASL, visual describers plus access doulas.