Inquiry

We ask this question against the backdrop of global outcry against states and systems founded on exclusion, expropriation, incarceration, surveillance, anti-Black racism, and many other forms of gendered and racialized othering that de-value and de-humanize in pursuit of concentrating wealth and power. What forms of solidarity, resistance, and re-imagining a common future might we cultivate in the face of such a legacy of harm? How are care, ritual, coalition-building, community safety, and joy prioritized in art and activism? What relations of power are already bound up in notions of care and solidarity, and what interventions are necessary in order to create new forms of value? Attention to abolitionist movements, stewardship, public and private spaces of care, disability and chronic illness, environmental justice, democratic structures, hospice and long-term care, and resistance to the commodification of self-care provide some starting points.