A person who uses the presentation of colorways or creation of finished items in yarn to promote and highlight causes such as womanism; racial equity and equality; reproductive and body autonomy rights; LGBTQIA+ rights; etc.
As a yarnivist, my goal is to recognize the intersectionality of live, causes and the use of yarn to support them
by BzyPeach July 4, 2022
Get the Yarnivist mug.1. Someone who is all talk and no action. (Comes from "yakking" and "activist," and the expression "All yak and no sack"); The opposite of a pragmatist.
2. Someone with a penchant for conjuring false hopes.
3. An expert at bluffing.
2. Someone with a penchant for conjuring false hopes.
3. An expert at bluffing.
1. "She keeps saying she'll quit her job, but her co-workers know she's just a yaktivist."
2. "Whenever his father promised to take him to the zoo, he had a feeling his father was just being a yaktivist."
3. "He always wins at poker because no one can tell when he's got a good hand and when he's being a yaktivist."
2. "Whenever his father promised to take him to the zoo, he had a feeling his father was just being a yaktivist."
3. "He always wins at poker because no one can tell when he's got a good hand and when he's being a yaktivist."
by Curtis Meyer March 12, 2008
Get the Yaktivist mug.form of activism that uses the presentation of colorways or creation of finished items in yarn to promote and highlight causes such as womanism; racial equity and equality; reproductive and body autonomy rights; LGBTQIA+ rights; etc.
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