Constellations of Care
Anarcha-feminism in Practice
Pluto Press · Print & ebook · April 20, 2024
What do we do when the state has abandoned us?
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- Who it’s for
- Anarcha-feminist practice traces mutual care through kitchens, medic collectives, social centers, and queer theater.
- Genres
- Feminist Theory & Criticism, Anarchism, Activism & Social Justice
- Published
- Pluto Press, April 20, 2024
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What do we do when the state has abandoned us? From failing health systems to housing crises to cascading ecological collapse, it's 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 feminism—or anarcha-feminism—shows us how we tend to our social relations can build a new world inside the old one.
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We can care for 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 Care powerfully underscores that we already have everything we need and desire in one another to carve out lives worth living.
Anarcha-feminist Care
Anarcha-feminist practice traces mutual care through kitchens, medic collectives, social centers, and queer theater.
Come here for
- Anarcha-feminist approaches to communal care
- Examples spanning Ljubljana to Mexico City
Expect
- Communitarian kitchens and medic collectives
- Squatted social centers and queer theater troupes
Where it sits
| Anarchism | 84% |
|---|---|
| Feminist Theory & Criticism | 70% |
| Activism & Social Justice | 61% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Women's Health
- Anarchism
- Political Activism
- Feminist Theory & Criticism
- Authors
- Cindy Barukh Milstein
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Published
- April 20, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Women's Health