The Creative Change Makers Zoom Calls
June 3: Getting Personal with Resistance Cootie Catchers
In April I taught folks how to make resistance Cootie Catchers, and on May Day a bunch of us participated in the nationwide Fall of Freedom event and put our catchers out in our local communities.
In June, I like the idea of continuing to explore the cootie catcher form with different types of political content and connection.
So for the June Creative Change-Maker’s call, I’ll be offering a workshop on creating a deeply personal reflection within a cootie catcher toy. Less factual zine and more personal letter.
We’ll explore how we might use this nostalgia-filled form to get as personal as possible—even if that means we still keep it anonymous to feel comfortable enough to do this.
I think our theme for this call will be something like “Love Letters to a Nation,” or “What I wish for my Country.”
We’ll do a few writing exercises to dig down into what matters most to us, and how we can communicate that to a stranger through anonymous but heartfelt cootie catchers. And I’ll teach you how to design the catchers so that your letter makes sense in the toy format.
My hope is for us to be able to put these out in our communities over July 4th weekend as a deeply personal counter narrative to the “Up is Down” “Corruption is Honesty” “Fascism is Democracy” boatload that will be pervading the airwaves.
It’s happening on Wednesday June 3 at 9am Pacific,10am Mountain, 11am Central, and noon Eastern, so please put it on your calendar because I’d love to see you there.
It’s okay to come even if you don’t feel creative or are just curious.
I’ll provide more details as we get closer to the date.
This call is FREE for paid subscribers of The Pink Teacup.
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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
PAST TOOLKITS FROM PREVIOUS CHANGE MAKERS MEETINGS
THAT ARE FREE TO DOWNLOAD
Click HERE to downlaod the “Inspiring Women of Resistance” cootie catcher.
Click HERE to download the “Stop the Broligarchy” cootie catcher.
Click HERE to download the Resistance Bunnies toolkit.
Click HERE to download the Resistance Valentines toolkit.
CREATIVE CHANGE MAKERS: WHAT’S 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.
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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.
