The power of Ravelry's stance against white supremacy reaches beyond the knitting community

Knitting has been a core part of my identity since I was five years old, when my grandmother patiently taught me how to make my first garter stitch square. Over the past few years, it’s been painful to see the empowerment racists derive from the Trump administration, but even more troubling to see how many people insist that taking a stance against racism is "being political." And I've been a member of Ravelry for 11 years. Today the site, which currently counts eight million members, and is one of the most influential online communities dedicated to knitting and other yarn crafts, enacted a policy that explicitly bans support of Donald Trump and his administration in content posted to the site, including project entries, patterns, forum posts and profiles.