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Handicrafts, including knitting, sewing, cross-stitching, as a form of activism?

Speaking with Mark Vernon, Sarah explains how this quiet, multi-sensory, and mindful approach to pressing matters helps gather thoughts and process feelings. 

She will be speaking and offering a workshop at the Realisation Festival 2026.

Arising from her own story and activist work, Sarah also discusses the crucial important of a space for inner reflection and compassionate conversation. Craftivism offers a form that is useful tool to protest without fuelling polarisation or burnout. 

What campaigns and cases has it impacted? How might it extend activism? Might this be an activism for the non-activist, as well?  

For more on craftivism see https://www.craftivist-collective.com/

For more on the Realisation Festival 2026 see https://realisationfestival.com/