ABOUT THE SERIES
It is becoming increasingly clear that people will have to rely on and care for each other more and more after years of purposeful abandonment from those in power. This series will highlight concrete ideas, strategies, and practices for creating solidarity and conditions where care is centralized. If we are to resist policies of violence and economies of war what are our alternatives? How can we expand our ideas? How can we encourage collective consciousness and reject apathy and individualism?
Series Timeline: Third Wednesday of every other month Beginning in February 2025 at 1pm est, 12pm ct, 10am pst.
Sessions
- Feb 19 – Session 1: Who Cares? Racial Capitalism, Social Reproduction, and Collective Entanglement
- April 16 – Session 2: Abolition, Land, and Care Work: Lessons from the Food Justice Movement
Session 2: Abolition, Land, and Care Work: Lessons from the Food Justice Movement
This session explores how the struggle for food sovereignty is an abolitionist project. What does it mean to build a world where we are all able to meet our physical, emotional, and spiritual needs—a world that centers the liberatory potential of food and land to heal and restore relationships torn apart by centuries of oppression? How is collectively tending to the land an act of care?
Through sharing lessons and learnings from movements for food and land sovereignty in Baltimore, New York, Cuba, and Palestine, Kanav also invites participants to envision the roles and skills needed to build alternative educational and food systems, develop land-based forms of mutual aid, and collectively practice revolutionary care.
Kanav Kathuria’s (he/him) work lies in the intersection of abolition, food and land sovereignty, and revolutionary education. He is the co-founder of the Maryland Food and Prison Abolition Project, a community-based organization that seeks to dismantle the prison food industrial complex, as well as a land steward, educator, and a PhD student in geography researching how people have used food and land to help get free.
Session 1: Who Cares? Racial Capitalism, Social Reproduction, and Collective Entanglement
Who performs care that sustains life, and under what conditions? Through a decolonial/Black feminist lens, this session explores the intersection of racial capitalism, social reproduction, and the international division of labor, emphasizing the ways that race, gender, class, and migration shape local and global care economies.
By interrogating who cares, for whom, and at what cost, this session will illuminate the urgent need for alternative models of care that challenge exploitation and affirm collective well-being.
Jalessah T. Jackson (they/them) is an interdisciplinary cultural worker, educator, writer, and organizer. With a background in Black Studies, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cultural Studies she researches and teaches about critical theories of race, gender, class, sexualities, disability and resistance movements.
