Name: Knitted Knowledge: Expressions of Self: Gender, Identity, and Embodiment
Start: 2026-05-12T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-12T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Another Story Bookshop

Knitted Knowledge is a series of community discussion circles where yarn and ideas intertwine.
About this Event

Expressions of Self: Gender, Identity, and Embodiment

In this Knitted Knowledge session, we explore gender as something lived, felt, and expressed and not just defined. Through a knitted conversation and shared craft, we will reflect on how gender shapes our experiences, our relationships, and the ways we understand ourselves in the world.

This circle invites participants of all identities to consider how gender is embodied, narrated, and expressed across cultures and personal histories. We will hold space for questions, insights, and the many ways people make meaning of who they are.

Bring your knitting, yarn, needles, your curiosity, and your voice. Together, we will weave a conversation that honors complexity, celebrates expression, and deepens our understanding of the self.

Knitted Knowledge

Knitted Knowledge is a series of community discussion circles where yarn and ideas intertwine. Participants gather with knitting needles in hand to explore pressing academic and social themes (from decolonization to environmental justice) while creating fabric together. Each knit becomes a metaphor for collective reflection, each row a reminder of how knowledge is built in community. Whether you are a seasoned knitter or simply curious, this circle invites you to slow down, craft, and converse in a space where creativity and critical thought are woven together.

Facilitator

Dr. Yecid Ortega has been committed to critical, creative, anti-racist, and decolonial worldviews in research and education for over two decades. Dr. Ortega explores the pluriversality of social, cultural, and linguistic experiences of the most marginalized communities in society (Immigrants, Refugees, 2S/LGBTQIA+, Neurodivergent, Older Adults, etc.) in formal and nonformal contexts and grounded by alternative critical, creative, arts-based, and community-oriented approaches. He is the founder of Liminal Research & Education and co-founder of Artem Research Collective.