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Next time, we will be reading selections from Sophie Lewis’ Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (2022). We will be discussing Chapter 2: Abolish Which Family? and Chapter 3: A Potted History of Family Abolitionism
As always, we meet at Camas Books, 2620 Quadra Street, on Lekwungen Territory. Our meeting is Sunday June 8th @ 6:30PM.
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PS: Our friends at the Anarchist Network of “Vancouver Island” have put together a list of anarchist and adjacent projects on the territory. If you are looking to involve yourself in anarchist activism, look at their trifold! Particularly, Food not Bombs serves free vegan food for revolution every Sunday 4-6PM at Spirit “Centennial” Square and have been facing increasing harassment tied to the gentrification of the Square. Come show up to eat! They also need help from volunteers.
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Last week, we talked about giving/receiving care, and creating collective access. This week we will be expanding on discussions of care, time, and access, by zooming-in on childcare and radical parenting.
For our next meeting, we are going to be discussing deference politics — the organizing tendency to defer to someone else’s judgment about what should be done in a given situation based solely on their perceived social location. We are going to dissect this tendency through “Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference” (2020) by Olúfémi O. Táíwò, and the local Ada’itsx “Fairy Creek” anarchist zine Creeker’s “Water Falling on Granite: Deference Politics, Indigenous Leadership, and Anarchist Relationality” (2023).
Our last readings got us into talking about building collective capacity to become better ̶a̶l̶l̶i̶e̶s̶ accomplices. We also briefly touched on the Black Panther Party’s programs (and formulation of revolutionary Self Care) which brought communities together to build this capacity, which naturally led us into Crimethinc’s Self-Care: Self as Other (2013). 