SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

I provide an autoethnographic account of craft activist workshops wherein I facilitate participants to remodel dolls to reflect their feminist or other social justice concerns, and describe one specific workshop with a powerful, personal impact in relation to childhood sexual exploitation. My familys social capital was severely limited by economic and social circumstances. I am drawing an emotional and intellectual connection between myself and the creators of the heartbreaking dolls I have witnessed not in order to assert some form of identity claim but because this enables me to draw deeper connections between my personal experiences and the central argument: that the workshops act as a co-created feminist space whereby we can attend to the various needs of our broad feminist community and give voice to each other in a way which makes justice. Although much work in autoethnography is from this individual perspective there are some collaborative projects such as the work of McNair in the arts education field who used collaborative life writing and visual story-telling to challenge dominant narratives of Black children in the US public school system. Affordances of the workshop Method of play: A small riot Before the workshop participants arrive I take time to make the room look colourful and enticing.