Cover
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Affective Politics of Needlework
Needlework, Women's Writing and Feminist Activism
The Texture of Analysis
Everyday Affective Potential
Chapter Overview
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
Stitching as Self-Care
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
Orienting Desire
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
Four-Hands Projects
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
Textures of Activism
The Kudzu Project
Digital Textures and Platforms for Creativity
Craftivism: Practice and Potential
Platforms for Creativity
Coda: Un-making Whiteness
Un-suturing Whiteness
Notes