We’ve talked about how knitting is seen as an old woman’s activity and I think that the “Raging Grannies” and “knitting Nana’s” have tapped into those stereotypes in the way that they gain attention. It is because they are old that their songs and activism is so funny and captivating.
I thought that the knitting of scarves was a really cool way of raising awareness about global warming. With all of the disinformation in circulation these days, these knitters thought it was important to display the reality and facts of global warming and climate change in a way that was very visible and easy to digest.