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"Offers the conversations we need to sustain the possibility of anarchist, feminist, and queer world-making in the ruins of everyday brutality"-Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of
Touching the Art"An antidote to the commodification of care"-Sundus Abdul Hadi, author of
Take Care of Your Self"Brings together all kinds of veterans of liberatory experiments in comradeship and kin-making, providing valuable insight"-Sophie Lewis, author of
Abolish the FamilyWhat 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 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 Care powerfully 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. They've been writing on anarchism for over two decades, and are the author of
Anarchism and Its Aspirations and
Try Anarchism for Life. They edited the anthologies
Rebellious Mourning and
Deciding for Ourselves, among others.
List of contents
Prologue: Constellations of Care -
Cindy Barukh Milstein1. The Collective as a Crucial Form -
Tahel Axel, Elias Lowe, Ami Weintraub, Leo Williamson-Rea, and Flip Zang2. Our Affinity Is Our Manifesto -
Mexico City-based feminist-anarchist affinity group in conversation with and translated by Scott Campbell3. Tea, Books, and Thresholds -
Corinne, Aurore, Éris, and Tom4. Unsanctioned Sanctuaries: A Cross-Continental Exchange -
Libertie Valance and Xela De La X5. Tarps and Gossip: Existing as Resisting -
Raani Begum6. Brown Girl Rise: How We Take Care of Our Own
- claire barrera7. Colectiva Mujeres Subversivas: In Solidarity and Friendship -
Lora Galora8. Pink Peacock: Lavishly Accessible -
Moishe Holleb in conversation with Alice Ross9. Solidarity Apothecary: Reclaiming Life -
Nicole Rose10. North Star Health Collective: Tending to the Sparks -
Mags Beall and Cory Maria Dack11. Stitching Together Other Worlds -
Cindy Barukh Milstein12. Illustrating Anarcha-Feminism -
Addy, Ali Cat, Aman, Andrea Narno, Anouk Kuona, Bree Busk, Erre, Feminist Collages PGH, Kill Joy, N.O. Bonzo, Rayan, Roan Boucher, Sugarbombing World, and Zola13. Remembrance and Subversive Bodies in Motion -
Bree Busk14. Shakesqueer Tucson: Performing Anarcho-Feminism -
Wren Awry15. Communitarian Kitchens: Stoking the Flames of Memory and Rebellion -
Vilma Rocío Almendra Quiguanás, translated by Scott Campbell16. Supporting the Revolution, One Stew at a Time -
Aleh Stankova and Fenya Fischler17. An Experiment in Addressing Intraorganizational Violence -
Benji Hart18. Collectively Funding Abortion -
Bayla (aka Bay) Ostrach19. Abortion without Borders -
Megan McGee20. Transition and Autonomy -
Scott/Shuli Branson21. Movement Midwifery -
Vicky Osterweil22. How We Persisted as a New Anarcha Group in ljubljana -
¿rne mäke23. Do You Feel the Same? -
Vilja Saarinen
About the author
Cindy Barukh Milstein is a diasporic queer Jewish anarchist and longtime organizer. They've been writing on anarchism for over two decades, and are the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations and Try Anarchism for Life: The Beauty of Our Circle. They edited the anthologies Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief and Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy, among others.
