Haywood weaves a feminist love song to her wyrde kinde from grief, embracing poetic communities through time and space.
Louise Haywood
Louise Haywood (Trinity Hall/University of Cambridge) is an academic, quiltmaker and aspiring textile artist. As Professor in Medieval Iberian Cultural and Literary Studies she works on issues relating to humour, the body, identity and the collective. She makes textile art reflecting concerns with space and place and exploring the divine feminine, is a member of the Eastern Region Textile Forum and writes a very occasional blog on textiles and mental health. She is a member, with Cambridge colleagues Georgina Evans and Isabelle McNeill, of Tactics and Praxis, a group exploring intersections between academic work and creative practice as part of a feminist, ethical response to academic institutions (https://www.tacticsandpraxis.org/).
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey