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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 you do deeper digging, there isn’t much pedagogy around care outside of healthcare.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
abolish time and maximize the liminality of rest.
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?