Feminist Fightback reading group: Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity Part 3
July 14 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Join Feminist Fightback for our summer reading group book: Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak.
In many places around the world, the freedom to simply care for one another is being attacked by the powerful, and acts of solidarity are being made illegal. In a moment of struggle defined by the rollback of the social safety net, the criminalization of migration, and the right-wing clampdown on bodily autonomy, radical networks of care are fighting back. From volunteer rescue boats in the Mediterranean to underground labs preparing gender-affirming hormones, people are reclaiming the means to care for one another in defiance of a system that devalues and exploits the labor of care. Against atomized despair, Pirate Care shows that fighting back isn’t only about legal and legislative changes but also about organizing, direct action, and disobedient care.
The book is 176 pages long. We will discuss this book in three sessions:
Monday 12th of May (60 pages):
- Ouverture: For a global mutiny
- Chapter 1: Breaking their laws to repair our worlds
Monday 9th of June (40 pages):
- Chapter 2: Care-hacking against the techno-health armada
- Chapter 3: Pirating imperial property
Monday 14th of July (48 pages)
- Chapter 4: Learning together under fire
- Chapter 5: Organising mutiny to mutualise care
- Conclusion: Swearing an oath
Please come having read the relevant chapters.
We have agreed a 20% discount at Housman’s bookshop for this book for members of our reading group. Please email feminist.fightback@gmail.com for more details.
The sessions will take place at the Sir Ralph Perring Centre, Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y 0SA. This is in Golden Lane Estate by the swimming pool and tennis court.
The venue is fully accessible. Please arrive at 7.00 for 7.15 start; we will finish at 8.30pm. All genders welcome.