The Politics and Praxis of Care 

A Panel discussion featuring Asmaa AbuMezied, Anna Romina Guevarra, Jina Kim, Joyce McMillan, and Paula X. Rojas
Moderated by Ujju Aggarwal
with poetry reading by Christine Yvette Lewis
This panel discussion is part of the Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction Conference. ASL will be provided. For more information, visit:
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This conference will bring together scholars, organizers, and artists to think together about the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change. The conference will draw on the long history of organizing, study, thinking, and praxis forged by feminist activists, organizers, scholars, and artists who have expanded our political analysis to include the dimensions of paid and unpaid domestic, emotional, and reproductive labor as well as those who have taught us about how social reproduction can expand how we understand and build transformative organizing for liberatory futures. At this conference, we will consider the following questions: How can we consider the relationships among social reproduction, racial capitalism, and the state? How have these relationships shifted over time? In considering this question, we want to problematize assumptions about the “care crisis” and map new locations and strategies of radical political possibility. What does care mean in the context of our organizing? How can we radically reimagine a collective, egalitarian, nonhierarchical, anti-capitalist politics of care as the basis for the world that is rooted in visions and praxis of mutuality and non-disposability? What does care offer as method, politics, and praxis to building transformative organizing against the carceral, capitalist, and imperialist state and for liberatory futures? Our intention is to generate a space for critical dialogue, inquiry, and collective learning that will inform organizing and grounded scholarship that advances social justice.
This conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University.