Tell me about your thesis: Disruptive Knitting

Nannas Knitting Nannas Against Gas coordinator Clare Twomey works on her knitting while locked onto an eight metre bamboo tripod over a gate to a mine site at Doubtful Creek in 2013 as protesters try to stop a convoy of trucks. Photograph supplied by Clare Twomey

Sue Green, a New Zealand-born Melbourne journalist and author of Disruptive Knitting: How knitters are changing the world

South Australian artist Makeda Duong uses knitting as an artistic medium to make feminist statements. These fine knitted lace and fair isle gloves are from her series The Duties of a Wife and incorporate the words: "laundry", "children", "washing", "cleaning". Photograph by Sue Green

Tash Barneveld in her Wellington store Holland Road Yarn Company. Through social media and the Internet she has built an international business and community of knitters, based in Wellington. Photograph by Sue Green