Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal hero image.
Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal

Editors: Anna Argirò (Guest Editor), Anna Brook (Guest Editor)


Editorial

Editorial: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal Special Issue
Editorial: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal Special Issue

Anna Argirò and Anna Brook

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal

Position Piece

(M)other matters: an exploration of disenfranchised grief, stillbirth and maternal identity through an embodied practice
(M)other matters: an exploration of disenfranchised grief, stillbirth and maternal identity through an embodied practice

Helen Acklam

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal

Gestational labour as affective labour: prenatal parenting, new technologies of foetal-mediation, and maternal labour at the level of the womb. 
Gestational labour as affective labour: prenatal parenting, new technologies of foetal-mediation, and maternal labour at the level of the womb. 

Holly Isard

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal

In Conversation

Decolonising Maternity – artists and academics in New Delhi and Brighton creating work on experiences of maternity
Decolonising Maternity – artists and academics in New Delhi and Brighton creating work on experiences of maternity

Jess Moriarty and RUCHIKA WASON SINGH

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal

Articles

Remembering Motherhood through My Daughter’s Wardrobe 
Remembering Motherhood through My Daughter’s Wardrobe 

CRYSTAL MARITTA SAM

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal

Emancipatory Monstrosity: A critical contribution towards infertility discourse informed by personal experience, reflective and creative practice
Emancipatory Monstrosity: A critical contribution towards infertility discourse informed by personal experience, reflective and creative practice

Jennifer Aurelie Crouch

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal

Visual Work

52 Weeks
52 Weeks

Millie Walton

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal

Multimedia Work

Making (Babies)
Making (Babies)

Lana Locke

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal

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