De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in Contemporary Art and Textile Crafts

12 essays discussing De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in contemporary art and textile craft, from a series of online seminars organised in the summer of 2022.
The themes of the 4 seminars are reflected in the book: Feminist Futures, Aesthetics, Textile Crafts and Pedagogies.

Katy Deepwell – Inter-related and Divergent paths;
Françoise Vergès – ‘Decolonial Antiracist Feminism’ (Trans: Melissa Thackway);

Madina Tlostanova -‘Decolonial AestheSis and the Post-Soviet Art’;

Dalida María Benfield- ‘Other Originalities: Collective Pedagogies of Epistemic Disobedience’;

Sharlene Khan – ‘Art on our Mind: South African Women: Creatives-of-Colour Talking Creatively’;

Ayanna Dozier – ‘Mnemonic Aberrations: An Essay on the CounterPoetics of Black Feminist Experimental Film’;

Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds – ‘Decolonial Theory and Spiderwoman Theater’s Missing and Murdered Women’;

Aarti Kawlra – ‘The Question of Women and Craft, Pre- and Post-Independence India’;

Neelam Raina – ‘Women’s Tacit, uncoded knowledge: Ownership and Value in Conflict Zones’;

Fatima Hussain ‘Recognizing Choice in the Practices of Making’;

Michelle Williams Gamaker – ‘A Particular Reality (APR): Developing a Nuanced Pedagogical Methodology within Practice-Based Higher Education Courses’

and

Leslie C. Sotomayor II – ‘The Practice of Feminist Art Education’

Supported by ACI Faculty, Middlesex University