care as a community good

When you do deeper digging, there isn’t much pedagogy around care outside of healthcare.

To make diagnosis something ‘empowering’, the first step is to completely break it apart and acknowledge all of its potential different and conflicting functions. Diagnosis can give you access to community, or cut you off from community. It can give you access to benefits, or it can bar you from income through employment. It could get you your meds

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.

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.

In any liberated future, care will be wide-ranging, abundant, flexible, ever-evolving, and tailored to hyperlocal context and also to the individual