2017
In Love and Struggle: A Visual Timeline of Caregiving Work in Canada
Kwentong Bayan Collective is a collective of two Toronto-based artists, Althea Balmes and Jo SiMalaya Alcampo. Their work explores critical and intersectional approaches to community-based art, labour, and education. They are currently developing a comic book, Kwentong Bayan: Labour of Love, in close collaboration with caregivers, advocates, and community allies about the real life stories of Filipinx migrant care-givers working in Canada under the Care-giver Program (formerly known as the Live-in Caregiver Program).
Vinyl illustrations by Althea Balmes, text by Jo SiMalaya Alcampo.
Digital print on adhesive vinyl, 20ft x 10.5ft.
Digital print on adhesive vinyl, 20ft x 10.5ft.
In Love and Struggle: A Visual Timeline of Caregiving Work in Canada (2017) examines the history of care work performed by Indigenous and racialized women in Canada. The timeline intervenes in conversations about Canada 150 celebrations by encouraging a critical examination of history in support of struggles for radical change. Caregivers have made invaluable contributions to Canada’s social, economic, and political history, yet they have consistently had to fight for their labour to be respected and recognized, and won shifts to justice and equity rooted in caregivers’ perseverance and resistance as a community.
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