Is Affection Just Another Word for Love?
we all have needs that need to be tended to. I always wonder, what if care is the work? What if caring for ourselves is the revolution, meaning, what would happen if we divested from dismantling white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and invested our energy in equitizing the care we are able to provide one another?
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
* “What would it mean for the workplace to be, not a family, but ground for making kin? Where and to whom would that kinship’s lines connect and disconnect, and so what? Oddkin doesn’t abide a hierarchy, it doesn’t heed the chain of command. A kinship of oddkin must be rooted in equity and care, in sustainability, in mutual aid. In solidarity.”
Mandy Brown • Oddkin
Indeed, to find the courage and will to write each of these pieces, I had to decide not to give up on us. All of us! I asked myself: What does it mean to intentionally decide to stay in relationship with humanity, to not count anyone out based on identity? What if I didn’t take it all personally? What if I saw the patterns that most offend me as in
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