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What if care is the work?
preset rules often prioritize the organization’s sense of safety over the needs of the individuals who are coming there. What about care is revolutionary to you?
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
I don’t need donations. I do, however, need investments, and investment signifies a commitment to seeing something through, while a donation usually exists as a one-off gift. How is language being used to reprogram the way that we’re putting energy into the world? Money that’s invested is money that’s going to multiply.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
This idea is both very new and not new. We’ve always been caring for each other, but I’m talking about care as a pedagogy and praxis.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
As someone who’s applied to some artist residencies in the past, it has felt like an antiquated, exclusive process that takes the intimacy out of the interaction. No one is prioritizing creating intimacy between artists, nor do I necessarily feel my art is always safe among my peers. I think that cutting that anxiety really does subvert the traditi... See more
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
This project is inspired by the transformative power of intimate gatherings. Most of my transformation has happened in intimate group settings where my care is prioritized.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
When you do deeper digging, there isn’t much pedagogy around care outside of healthcare.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
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?
oftentimes when folks think about existing in groups, their self sort of gets lost. But, actually, caring for yourself—and, maybe, reinventing the individual narrative that has been so Americanized into something that’s going to contribute to the group’s care—is what I’m getting at.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
This is also a form of abolition—how do we figure out how to let people be free by prioritizing their needs and getting clear about what is going to make someone feel safe in a space?
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
oftentimes when folks think about existing in groups, their self sort of gets lost. But, actually, caring for yourself—and, maybe, reinventing the individual narrative that has been so Americanized into something that’s going to contribute to the group’s care—is what I’m getting at.