Caring Cloth was developed from a collective of literature which identifies ingredients of care led practice, references include:

  • ‘Radical compassion’ and Openness to the Unknown’
    Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, 2nd edn (London: Zed Books, 2012). p. Xii.

  • ‘Collective voice’
    Rute Pereira Crespo Fiadeiro, ‘Uncovering Women’s Collective Voice as a System of Change’ (Royal College of Art, 2020).

  • Feminist solidarity
    Kumari Jayawardena, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, The Feminist Classics (London ; New York: Verso, 2016). 

  • ‘the needle is used to repair damage’
    Louise Bourgeois in Storr ‘The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois’, (2016), quoted in Jacqueline Millner, ‘Caring through Art: Reimagining Value as Political Practice’, Art & the Public Sphere, 8.2 (2019), 163–74 <https://doi.org/10.1386/aps_00014_1> (p.170) [accessed 10 March 2021]

  • Discomfort and solidarity -
    ‘Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”’, in Gender Space Architecture: An interdisciplinary introduction, ed. by Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner, Iain Borden, (London:Routledge, 2000), p.54. 

  • Care ethics -
    Jacqueline Millner, ‘Caring through Art: Reimagining Value as Political Practice’, Art & the Public Sphere, 8.2 (2019), 163–74 <https://doi.org/10.1386/aps_00014_1>. [accessed 10 March 2021]

  • Alternative epistemologies -
    Elvira Espejo Ayca, ‘“Universal Education” in Art and Its Painful Divisions’ <https://www.afterallartschool.org/essays/elvira-espejo-ayca/>. [accessed 2 August 2021]

  • ‘Stitching new configurations’ -
    Sera Waters,  ‘A care-full remembering of Australian settler colonial home-making traditions’, (2018), quoted in Jacqueline Millner, ‘Caring through Art: Reimagining Value as Political Practice’, Art & the Public Sphere, 8.2 (2019), 163–74 (p.164) <https://doi.org/10.1386/aps_00014_1> [accessed 10 March 2021]

  • Care-led practice -
    Rebecca Mayo, ‘Matters of care: Art practice and Urban ecologies’, (2018), quoted in Jacqueline Millner, ‘Caring through Art: Reimagining Value as Political Practice’, Art & the Public Sphere, 8.2 (2019), 163–7(p.166) <https://doi.org/10.1386/aps_00014_1> [accessed 10 March 2021] 

  • Socially engaged practice - Pablo Helguera, Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook (New York: Jorge Pinto Books, 2011). p. 13

The knitting circle as method, informed by:

  • Kaszynska, P. et al. (2022). Practice Research in Design: Towards a Novel Definition. London, UK: University of the Arts London. 

  • Practice-Led Research, Research-Led Practice in the Creative Arts, ed. by Hazel Smith, Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2009).p.49

  • Rebecca Mayo, ‘Matters of care: Art practice and Urban ecologies’ (2018), quoted in Jacqueline Millner, ‘Caring through Art: Reimagining Value as Political Practice’, Art & the Public Sphere, 8.2 (2019), 163–7(p.166) <https://doi.org/10.1386/aps_00014_1>. [accessed 10 March 2021]  

  • A Delicate Activism, Allan Kaplan, Sue Davidoff, (Cape Town: The Proteus Initiative, 2014).

  • Sue Heatherington, (2021) Quiet Disruptors. Independently Published. 

  • Lapadat, Judith C., ‘Ethics in Autoethnography and Collaborative Autoethnography’, Qualitative Inquiry, 23.8 (2017), 589–603 <https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800417704462> [accessed 3 August 2021]

  • ‘Feminist Research Ethics → 5. What Are Feminist Research Ethics? – GenUrb – Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South’ <https://genurb.apps01.yorku.ca/courses/feminist-research-ethics/> [accessed 2 August 2021].

  • Richa Nagar, ‘UI Press | Richa Nagar | Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism’ <https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/95pys8db9780252038792.html> [accessed 5 August 2021].

  • ‘Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis’ <https://www.sunypress.edu/p-4934-critical-transnational-feminist.aspx> [accessed 5 August 2021].

  • ‘Duke University Press - Feminism without Borders’ <https://www.dukeupress.edu/feminism-without-borders> [accessed 5 August 2021].

  • Elizabeth Mackinlay, Critical Writing for Embodied Approaches: Autoethnography, Feminism and Decoloniality (Springer International Publishing, 2019).