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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Priya Parker
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
Alice Wong
Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing
Jina B. Kim
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Sara Ahmed
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Mia Birdsong
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
Cara Page
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
M.E. O'Brien
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Premilla Nadasen
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Sophie Lewis
Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It
Emily Kenway
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire (D/C: Dis/color)
Akemi Nishida
Take Care of Your Self: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberation
Sundus Abdul Hadi
Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care
Lynne Segal
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
The Care Collective
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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