• Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s Forum (South Africa, 2000s).
  Grassroots housing and land rights movement, women-centred, foregrounding mutual aid and community care.
• African Feminist Forum (Pan-African, since 2006).
  A movement prioritising intersectional feminism, collective responsibility, and community care.
• Birth Rites Collection, UK, founded by Helen Knowles in 2009
• Camden Black Sisters, UK (1970s–80s).
  Black feminist and cultural group with childcare as part of community organising (not art-only but interwoven with cultural practice).
• Christiania, Copenhagen (1971–).
  Self-organised free town; artists, activists, and families experimenting with communal living, including shared childcare structures and collective nurseries.
• Comuna del Sur, Uruguay (1960s–70s).
  Leftist artistic-political collective experimenting with communal living and education, with care central to their communal model.
• Enemies of Good Art (London, 2010).
  Collective exploring art, motherhood, and cultural labour.
• Federici, Silvia, Selma James & Mariarosa Dalla Costa. Wages for Housework Campaign (Italy/US/UK, 1970s).
  Demanding recognition and payment for domestic labour.
• Hackney Flashers (UK feminist photography collective, 1974–80s).
  Exhibitions such as Who’s Holding the Baby? on childcare and women’s labour.
• Hornsey Film Group / Hornsey College of Art Sit-In, UK (1968).
  Radical student occupation, discussions on crèches and integrating childcare into educational and artistic spaces.
• Kelly, Mary. Post-Partum Document. 1973–79. Seminal conceptual work on motherhood, daily care, and representation.
• Kinderladen Movement, West Germany (1968–70s).
  Not artist-only, but influential to cultural activists: self-organised parent-run nurseries linked to feminist, leftist, and student movements. Artists often participated in and drew from these models.
• La Borde Clinic (France, from 1950s).
  Radical psychiatric community experimenting with shared care, collective living, and creativity.
• Latin American Feminist Encuentros (from 1981, ongoing).
  Continental gatherings that created cross-border feminist networks grounded in community and care.
• Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Argentina, 1977–).
  Mothers of the disappeared under dictatorship, turning grief and care into political resistance.
• Mother Art Collective (Los Angeles, 1970s–80s).
  Addressed motherhood, domestic labour, and political activism.
• Movimiento Feminista Italiano (Italy, 1970s).
  Feminist collectives linking consciousness-raising, reproductive justice, and the revaluation of domestic work.
• Mujeres Libres (Spain, 1930s). Anarcho-feminist group linking emancipation, education, and collective care during the Spanish Civil War.
• Phyllis Yager and community daycare projects (USA, 1970s). Linked to feminist artist movements, experimenting with creative childcare spaces.
• Phoenix Collective (UK, 1980s). Feminist activist group focusing on arts, education, and childcare in relation to social justice.
• Project Artaud, San Francisco (1971). Artist live/work cooperative; families lived on-site, and shared childcare became part of daily organisation.
• Rosler, Martha. Semiotics of the Kitchen. 1975. Performance critiquing domestic roles and representation of women’s labour.
• Sangtin Writers and Sangtin Yatra (India, early 2000s). Feminist collective blending grassroots activism, autobiography, and care as political practice.
• Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) (India, founded 1972). Trade union of women workers in the informal sector, integrating childcare, cooperative models, and feminist labour struggles.
• The Women’s Free Arts Alliance, New York (1970s). Feminist artist collective that paired exhibitions with consciousness-raising, often including provisions for mothers and children.
• The Women’s Building, Los Angeles (1973–1991). A hub for feminist art, with workshops and support structures — childcare and community support were often part of the infrastructure.
• Ukeles, Mierle Laderman. Maintenance Art Manifesto. 1969. Landmark text elevating maintenance and care work as artistic practice.
• Womanhouse (Los Angeles, 1972). Judy Chicago & Miriam Schapiro. Feminist installation/performance project exploring domesticity, gendered labour, and women’s lived experiences.
• Women’s Cultural Centre (Nigeria, 1980s). Feminist cultural and social projects addressing women’s work, education, and childcare.
• Zapatista Women’s Revolutionary Law (Chiapas, Mexico, 1994). Policy combining indigenous feminist practice with collective care and autonomy.

• Borda, Ann. “Maternity, Artistic Labour and the Archive.” Studies in the Maternal, 2016.
• Mermiri, Tina. Mothers, Artists, Others: An Anthology. Procreate Project / Anomie Publishing, forthcoming.
• Oakley, Ann. The Sociology of Housework. Penguin, 1974.
• O’Reilly, Andrea. Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, and Practice. Demeter Press, 2016.
• Reckitt, Helena. “Forgotten Relations: Feminist Artists and Relational Aesthetics.” In Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions, Liverpool University Press, 2013.
• Reckitt, Helena. Instituting Feminism. Various essays and curatorial writings.

• Berne, Patricia, et al. Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility. Documentary film, 2013.
• Clare, Eli. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Duke University Press, 2017.
• Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation. Duke University Press, 2015 [2nd ed.].
• Dolmage, Jay Timothy. Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education. University of Michigan Press, 2017.
• Hamraie, Aimi. Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
• Kafer, Alison. Feminist, Queer, Crip. Indiana University Press, 2013.
• Kuppers, Petra. Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Kuppers, Petra. Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters. University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
• Mingus, Mia. “Access Intimacy.” Leaving Evidence blog, 2011.
• Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018.
• Samuels, Ellen. Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race. NYU Press, 2014.
• Sins Invalid. Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People. Sins Invalid, 2016.
• Wong, Alice. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. Vintage, 2020.
• Wong, Alice (ed.). Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life. Vintage, 2022.

• Ainsworth, Mary D. Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1978.
• Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 1987.
• Axline, Virginia. Play Therapy. Ballantine Books, 1969.
• Bowlby, John. Attachment and Loss. Vols. 1–3. Basic Books, 1969–1980.
• Bronfenbrenner, Urie. The Ecology of Human Development. Harvard University Press, 1979.
• Bruner, Jerome. The Culture of Education. Harvard University Press, 1996.
• Dewey, John. Experience and Education. Macmillan, 1938.
• Goodley, Dan. Dis/ability Studies: Theorising Disablism and Ableism. Routledge, 2014.
• Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, China Martens & Mai’a Williams (eds.). Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. PM Press, 2016.
• hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge, 1994.
• Hughes, Daniel A. Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children. W. W. Norton, 2009.
• Jordan, Judith V. (ed.). The Complexity of Connection: Writings from the Stone Center’s Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. Guilford Press, 2004.
• Klein, Melanie. The Psycho-Analysis of Children. Hogarth Press, 1932.
• Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. Basic Books, 1999.
• Landreth, Garry L. Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship. Brunner-Routledge, 2002.
• Linton, Simi. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity. NYU Press, 1998.
• Malaguzzi, Loris. in Edwards, Carolyn; Gandini, Lella; Forman, George (eds.). The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education. Ablex, 1993.
• Miller, Jean Baker. Toward a New Psychology of Women. Beacon Press, 1976.
• Noddings, Nel. Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education. University of California Press, 1984.
• O’Reilly, Andrea. Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, Practice. Demeter Press, 2016.
• Perry, Bruce D. & Maia Szalavitz. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog. Basic Books, 2006.
• Piaget, Jean. The Origins of Intelligence in Children. International Universities Press, 1952.
• Siegel, Daniel J. The Developing Mind. Guilford Press, 1999.
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• Vygotsky, Lev S. Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Harvard University Press, 1978.
• Winnicott, D. W. Playing and Reality. Tavistock, 1971.

Further reading: (Frameworks & Approaches Referenced)

• Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum, 1970. (critical pedagogy, participatory frameworks)
• Kemmis, Stephen & Robin McTaggart (eds.). The Action Research Planner. Deakin University Press, 1988. (participatory action research)
• Morrison, Brenda E. Restoring Safe School Communities: A Whole School Response to Bullying, Violence and Alienation. Federation Press, 2007. (restorative practices)
• Stein, Sharon & de Sousa Santos, Boaventura (eds.). Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies. Verso, 2007. (decolonial & ecopedagogy)

• Arts Council England. Let’s Create Strategy. (Ongoing).
• Artquest & East Street Arts. Better Open Calls: A Guide to Artist-Friendly Applications. Artquest, 2021. Available at: https://artquest.org.uk/research/better-open-calls/
• Common Wealth Theatre. Working Class Representation Toolkit.
• Creative Scotland. Making it Work: Guidance for Supporting Parents and Carers in the Arts. 2019.
• Jerwood Arts. Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts: A Toolkit for Employers. 2020.
• UK Family Arts Campaign. Family Arts Standards.