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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?
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?
I also love that self-care is care for all. I think that one is pretty straightforward. If I’m showing up cared for, if I’m showing up embodied and at ease, that’s the energy that I’m bringing to the room and that’s the kind of experience that I’m going to illuminate for others.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
I see an experiment with care as an untapped resource with the potential to undo capitalism.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
My understanding of abolition is to transform harm and our relationship to how we are trained to think about harm.
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?
we do have the energy and the capacity to divest from these violent realities and to recalibrate by stepping through these access points.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
It’s flirting with the liminality between the present and the future. I think portals can exist as little hopping moments; I’m in the present, obviously, but I’m also experiencing future realities. How can I use portals as little keys, to bring those two into symbiosis?
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
When we focus on building new models of moving through the world that do not rely on violence and genocide to function, that is abolition at work.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
The question of impact is my favorite. If the people doing the impacting are tired and sick and frustrated and have all these needs that are not being met, what good is that impact? The quality of work that we can do for each other depends on the quality of care that we’re experiencing and cultivating for ourselves. I can’t say that enough.