The Creative Change Makers Zoom Calls

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Creative Change Makers: What Is It All About?

The one hour monthly Creative Change Makers Zoom calls are life-affirming containers where we explore do-able ways of being creative in our resistance to rising authoritarianism and to claim our agency through creative action. To find a bit of joy and connection through the pro-activity of making.

Some calls might feel like a quilting bee or a “stitch and bitch” session where we bring our individual creative resistance projects to the zoom and keep each other company as we create. On others, I might share a simple technique or walk you through how to fold a different type of zine using a template I send via email.

(Click here and here to see some of the fun and effective “tiny signs” we’ve made in the past and stuck in oddball spots like the produce section of the grocery store. )

At the end of each call, we’ll also take time to talk about where and how we’ll put our creative resistance creations out in the world. To figure out how to weave frequency and regularity into our creative acts of resistance so they can be effective.

We’ll consciously develop our creative resistance habit—each unique to ourselves while having the group energy to lean on and help us be accountable.

But most importantly, the Creative Change Makers calls will always be a place to ask questions or get re-inspired. A place to rest with fellow creative resisters so you can continue to weave your thread.

April 1: Resistance Toys: Fortune Tellers & Cootie Catchers

At our Wednesday, April 1 call we’re going to make old-fashioned cootie catcher toys with political messages of resistance.

Or maybe you knew them as fortune tellers? Either way, they are fun, super low tech, and they took me back to my childhood.

Our guest teacher is Amelia Williams—a published poet who wraps her writing inside these interactive toys and puts them out in the world. I took one look and knew I wanted to have her help lead a Creative Change Makers meeting where we can all make these fun and surprising paper resistance toys together.

Check out these beauties on her website. (And don’t worry, we’ll do something simpler in the workshop—more like our tiny signs.)

Our plan is to email everyone who registers for the call a couple templates filled out with political messages. You’ll print them out ahead of time, and then we’ll fold them together so you can see how it works and leave the meeting with a finished product.

After that, we’ll create our own fortune tellers/cootie catchers and start putting them out in the world. Bring several sheets of copy paper, scissors, a pencil, and whatever markers or colored pencils you have.

These can also be a way for us to create an event for the next nationwide Fall of Freedom day happening on May 1. Each of us can make however many we’re comfortable doing, and then we’ll all go out on the same day (wherever we live) and pop them in unexpected places in our lives—the ladies room at the movie theater, the produce section of your grocery store, your local library, and more.

Here’s an overview of how the 45-60 minute call will work:

  • We’ll take a few minutes at the beginning to connect with each other and share how we’re feeling.

  • I’ll introduce Amelia and we’ll talk about the cootie catchers.

  • We’ll then all fold our little cootie catchers together and Amelia and I will answer any questions you may have.

  • Then we’ll each make our own cootie catchers—or start them—so we can talk about how we might put our messages on them and be able to see what other people may do.

  • I’ll explain more about Fall of Freedom and how we can be our own FoF team and participate in this creative and uplifting event.

It’s okay to come even if you don’t feel creative or are just curious.

This call is FREE for paid subscribers of The Pink Teacup.

An annual paid subscription to The Pink Teacup is only 36.00/year right now. You can also sign up for a single month if you prefer.

If you are a paid subscriber and you need the link to register, please email me at bush.sarahATgmail.com.

If you are not yet a paid subscriber but would like to join us, Click here to learn more.

Once you sign up, the welcome email will have a link for you to register for the zoom call.

I look forward to seeing you!

Questions? Email Sarah at bush.sarahATgmail.com

SCHEDULE OF ZOOM CALLS

The calls are now on the first Wednesday of each month at 9am Pacific, 10am Mountain, 11am Central, and Noon Eastern.

Here’s the schedule for the next several calls:

  • Wednesday, February 4, 2026.

  • Wednesday, March 4, 2026.

  • Wednesday April 1, 2026

  • Wednesday May 6, 2026

  • Wednesday June 3, 2026

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Here’s a list of other potential ideas for creative change-making to spark your imagination:

  • Print, paint, or sew a flag of resistance or solidarity that hangs outside your house or apartment window.

  • Write a zine about vote suppression that you casually leave on coffee shops tables.

  • Bake blue and yellow iced Ukrainian flag cookies that you bring to work for your right-wing coworkers to enjoy unbeknownst.

  • Make “did you know” single-fact flyers that you stick on car windshields in a grocery store parking lot.

  • Design a saucy bumper sticker, a righteous pin, or an audacious t-shirt that you share with like-minded souls.

  • Weave nature crowns or construct witches hats to wear with friends at your next protest—or plan a crown-making party where you’ll invite your local friends to come to your place to create them with you.

  • Paint handmade signs that are funny or wacky or graphic or gorgeous to bring to protests and share with folks who showed up without one.

  • Order custom “democracy” M&Ms or “Rule of Law” conversation heart candies and put them out at your PTA meeting or church coffee hour.

  • Choreograph a public dance project that celebrates reproductive rights.

  • Stitch a quilt to auction at a fundraiser for the displaced.

  • Make tiny protest messages that show up in unexpected places in your community—perhaps left in a grocery store shopping basket or taped to a bathroom stall at a rest stop or the gas station mini mart.

There is no wrong, no too small, no too wacky no too mundane. If it excites you, or feels fun, or, if you’re like me, it makes you involuntarily raise your eyebrows while you smile mysteriously and twirl your invisible mustache, that’s all that matters.