Step 1 on how to make a safety pin bracelet: Push open a safety pin, string beads on it and push it closed. Repeat until you have enough decorated safety pins to wrap around your wrist.

Actually, there are two holes in a safety pin: one at the top where it latches, and one at the bottom inside the coil. And yes, both serve a purpose beyond just looking like tiny design features.

Stop right there! The safety pin is meant to show that you’re the good, approachable kind of privileged. It expresses your concern for people of color, gays, and immigrants.

No, it’s not a fashion statement, there is deeper meaning. A movement has started in the U.S. of people wearing a safety pin in order to demonstrate they do not believe in the campaign rhetoric ...