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Abstract
In this study, I conducted object interviews and used photos, videos, and multi-material investigations of the fiber crafts process with four women who engaged in fiber crafts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the intra-actions that occurred between human and more-than-human materials within the fiber craft assemblages through the lens of feminist new materialism. In addition to the recorded data, I investigated participants’ virtual platforms (spaces) through YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. I approached data analysis through diagrammatical thinking and speculative vignettes in order to immerse myself in the fiber craft assemblages that continued to form and (re)form throughout the study. My goal for analyzing the human and more-than-human materials that constituted the assemblages was not to seek invariable structures and categorizations for the parts of the assemblages or to analyze overall meaning. Rather, I pursued an investigation into the process of how these assemblages came together. While there were many rich scenarios and eventful happenings that surfaced, I focused specifically on the aspects that called to me as I was investigating the data through the concept of spacetimemattering. Some of these findings include an attunement to gender, spaces, boundaries and the folding and unfolding of time produced within the entanglements that form women’s fiber crafting assemblages. Overall, gender became an intertwining thread that helped to define space and time through porous boundaries and intra-actions.INDEX WORDS: feminist new materialism, spacetimemattering, assemblages, speculative analysis, women’s fiber crafting, diagrammatical thinking