Sharing Is Caring: Exchange, Reimagined

• In Event: Care as a Practice of Activism, Advocacy, and Alliance

Abstract

What characterizes an economy based on caring for others? I explore this question by advocating for a praxis of sharing and redistributing resources that recognizes our complex interconnections as members of a community and that resists conventional, transactional notions of exchange. I build on human geographers’ conceptions of diverse economies, queer theories about kinship, and social scientists engaging new materialist theories of entanglement. Drawing from my work with a Los Angeles community organization committed to “kinful and regenerative cultural ecologies,” I argue for forms of activism that reimagine reciprocity when building liberatory worlds.

Presenter

• Agatha Beins, Texas Woman's University