Constellations of Care (eBook)

Offers the conversations we need to sustain the possibility of anarchist, feminist, and queer world-making in the ruins of everyday brutalityMattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author ofTouching the ArtAn antidote to the commodification of careSundus Abdul Hadi, author ofTake Care of Your SelfBrings together all kinds of veterans of liberatory experiments in comradeship and kin-making, providing valuable insightSophie Lewis, author ofAbolish the FamilyWhat do we do when the state has abandoned us? From failing health systems to housing crises to cascading ecological collapse, its increasingly evident that state-centered politics do not protect us from the violence of colonialism and capitalism, fascism and patriarchy. In fact, they actively work to harm us.Anarchist feminismor anarcha-feminismshows us that the ways we tend to our social relations can build a new world inside the old one. We can take care of each other when nothing else will, supplying communal well-being and liberatory horizons.From communitarian kitchens to medic collectives, squatted social centers to queer theater troupes, Ljubljana to Mexico City,Constellations of Carepowerfully underscores that we already have everything we need and desire in one another to carve out lives worth living.CINDY BARUKH MILSTEIN is a diasporic queer Jewish anarchist and longtime organizer. Theyve been writing on anarchism for over two decades, and are the author ofAnarchism and Its AspirationsandTry Anarchism for Life. They edited the anthologiesRebellious MourningandDeciding for Ourselves, among others.