Writing
2025 Real Lemon: an intergenerational dialogue on lesbian tradition, Art History Journal, Special Issue on Queer Art since the 1980s
2024 On Queer Archives co-authored with Ajamu X, (Un) Defining Queer: Queering the Constituent Museum, The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, p73-83
2024 Beloved: crafting femme intimacy and desire with the Ladies of Llangollen, Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity, Ryan Flood & Tooth Murphy, Routledge, p 342-359
2024 The Lesbian Quilt Manifesto, TEXTILE journal, p 625-630
2024 Archives and Amazons: a quilters guide to the lesbian archive, The Journal of Lesbian Studies, Volume 28, Issue 2, p 321-342
2023 Quilting Intergenerational Intimacies in Fisch’s Rebel Dyke Archive, Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain, Daniel Foundtain (ed), Intellect Books, p 132-136
Ford, SJ. Touching the Archive. SOANYWAY, Leeds, 2022 [online: https://www.soanywaymagazine.org/issues]
Ford, SJ. In the mud: Lesbian trauma and the reparative quilt in the Pitt Rivers Museum. The Journal of Psychoanalysis Culture and Society 27, 122–135, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-022-00278-0
Ford, SJ. Queering Suffrage: embroidering the lesbian life of Vera Holme, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, London, 2021 [online: https://maifeminism.com/queering-suffrage-embroidering-the-lesbian-life-of-vera-holme/]
Ford, SJ, Pandemic Making Diary. Deccorating Dissidence, London, 2021 [online: https://decoratingdissidence.com/making-during-a-pandemic/pandemic-diary-sarah-joy-ford/]
Ford, SJ. Practice Based: Quilting the Lesbian Archive. Deccorating Dissidence, London, 2020 [online: https://decoratingdissidence.com/2020/04/03/practice-based-quilting-the-lesbian-archive-sarah-joy-ford/]
Ford, SJ (ed) Cut Cloth: contemporary textiles and feminism, PO Publishing, Leeds, 2017 [online: https://www.cutcloth.co.uk/publication