care as a community good
That ‘individual responsibility’ idea is present in so many messages from awareness campaigns: the idea that it is our duty to reach out to loved ones and services for help; the suggestion that mental health support should come in the form of a ‘service’ at all; the emphasis on individual tools like therapy, meds, self-help, mindfulness and apps to
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instagram.compreset 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?
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?
The state sees communal care as an ideological threat. This is why mutual aid movements are routinely targeted and undermined by the US government. Mutual aid projects are a manifestation of power that contradicts the state’s primary narrative about what it is, who we are, and whose purpose it ultimately serves.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
When you do deeper digging, there isn’t much pedagogy around care outside of healthcare.
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?
What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called “the e
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