The image of a women crocheting or knitting is one that historically has been associated with domesticity, but in fact there is a long history of women using craft as means of expressing themselves politically. And now collective actions like yarn bombing are bringing craft into the public square - sometimes literally - and bringing women from across the globe together through craftivism.

Guest: 

Gemma McKenzie, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Organiser of the Threads of Protest Exhibition