Introduction: The Affective Politics of Needlework
Needlework, Women's Writing and Feminist Activism
Everyday Affective Potential
1 Quilting Black Resistance: Slavery's Afterlives, Creativity and Social Justice
The Affective Economies of Quiltmaking
Legacies of Everyday Creative Resistance
Mediating the Horrors of Slavery through Text and Textile
Making and Dwelling in Potentiality.
Connecting People through Affect
Towards a Different Future
2 Sewing Desire: Homework, Gendered Agency and Bangladeshi Diaspora
Labour, Liberation and Literary Imagination
Housework, Affect and the Fashioning of the Self
Patterns of Everyday Making and Being
Affective Sartorial Potential
Sewing a New Sense of Self
New Affective Trajectories
3 Stitching Transnational Solidarity: Textile Crafts and Cross-Cultural Encounters
Guldusi: An Afghan-European Embroidery Initiative
Stitched Orientalisms and Women's Identity.
The Challenge of Everyday Representation
Theorizing a Transnational Everyday
Texturing the Representation of Afghan Women
Shared Practices of Meaning Making
Stitching the Self and the Other
Conclusion: The Power to Connect
4 Knitting Feminist Politics: Craft ivism and Affective Tension
The Pussyhat Project: Knitting Anger, Discontent and Solidarity
Digital Textures and Platforms for Creativity
Craftivism: Practice and Potential
Coda: Un-making Whiteness
