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Published in: TransformationLearning to care as a feminist
Feminist perspectives show that the political dimensions of care can be easily forgotten or wilfully dismissed.
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Published in: TransformationAbleism and the struggle for spatial justice
People are disabled by society, not individual impairments, so it’s society that needs fixing.
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Published in: TransformationToxic masculinity and its threat to a caring society
A growing movement has a new enemy firmly in its crosshairs: all forms of caring behavior.
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Published in: TransformationStop using mental illness to explain white supremacy
White supremacy is not an unfortunate stain on a clean democracy - it’s terrifyingly normal.
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Published in: TransformationOne nation under stress?
Stress has been commodified, but stressism offers no solutions to the structural problems of modern life.
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Published in: TransformationLet’s not make stress in the aid sector only a white person’s problem
Stress isn’t just a matter of insecurity or trauma; it’s also about the ability to look after one’s family and be...
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Published in: TransformationNavigating the transformation from loved one to caregiver
Caring requires a radical opening-up to others.
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Published in: TransformationFinding a place for the pain
Can we acknowledge the suffering inherent in displacement without letting it define refugees?
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Published in: TransformationCaregiving: a nascent social revolution
Care is a democratic act: what we “give”, what we “receive,” and what we “create” together.
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Published in: TransformationDisabled people don’t need to be “fixed”
What we really need is a cure for ableism.
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Published in: TransformationAdvice for future corpses
When we allow death to happen, we are not killing people, we are caring for them.
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Published in: TransformationRefugee-to-refugee humanitarianism
The realities of care-giving belie the assumption that male refugees, especially those from Muslim backgrounds, pose...
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Published in: TransformationAdopting a child is a revolutionary act
Both policy reforms and face-to-face caring are fundamental components of a just society.
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Published in: TransformationBringing love, compassion and humanity back into healthcare
Disability isn’t a deficit within a person, it’s a deficit in a culture that doesn’t accept or enable a person for...
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Published in: TransformationDecolonizing birth
Indigenous women are taking back their power as life-givers.
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Published in: TransformationEmotional politics: suffer the little children?
Outrage over child abuse is no substitute for effective social policy.
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Published in: TransformationWhere strangers become family
A unique affordable-housing community supports both foster families and elders who might be looking for a few extra...
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Published in: TransformationCarers of the world unite
Women carers are still fighting for the right to not be impoverished, overworked, isolated, or exploited in their work.
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Published in: TransformationPresent perfect
With neither past nor future in common, what do relationships that exist entirely in the present have to offer?...
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Published in: TransformationInside the alternative death care movement
From funeral cooperatives to green burials, there's a kinder, gentler, less expensive way to die.