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Home / Latest / Drawing Together #10: Care as an Urgent, Practical Task

Drawing Together #10: Care as an Urgent, Practical Task

Jun. 11, 2020 by Comic Nurse

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In case you were unable to join us for our tenth Drawing Together event, here is a recap of the exercises we did together.

Our host was Ebru Ustundag, GMIC board member, a critical feminist geographer interested in intersections of health/care and social justice. 



Resources of cartoonists of color were shared.

Drawing While Black Directory

Cartoonist of Color Directory

ALA Graphic Novel & Comics Roundtable Black Lives Matter Comics Reading List

More  relevant databases.


Our warm-up exercise was to think about breath/breathing. We started with a quote from 13th-century Persian poet and scholar, Rumi.


 


For the second exercise, we thought about care as a political act and a commitment, especially during these unprecedented times. As pointed out by feminist, queer and disability activists and scholars, care is always relational (human and non-human ecologies). It also has significant ethical, political, cultural implications.

Our second prompt of the week was to draw in response to the prompt:

 “Care as an urgent, practical task.” 


Discussion of the drawings participants made led to discussion of a few resources, including:

Ethics of Care, Dependence, Disability by Eva Feder Kittay

Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds by María Puig de la Bellacasa

Complaint as Diversity Work Sara Ahmed. She expands on this topic in her book, Living a Feminist Life

Craftivism and book on the topic.

Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva

Staying with the Trouble by Donna Harroway

Listening as a Radical Act


We welcome sharing of your drawings on social media, #DrawingTogetherGM!


Resources for support during the Covid-19 Pandemic:

USA : 1-800-273-TALK (8255) to reach a 24/7 crisis center, or text MHA to 741741 at the CrisisText Line.

https://www.mhanational.org/get-involved/contact-us

CANADA: 1-833-456-4566 toll free (In QC: 1-866-277-3553), 24/7

www.crisisservicescanada.ca

https://cmha.ca/find-your-cmha/ (Finding your local branch of Canadian Mental Health Association)

 UK: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stress-anxiety-depression/mental-health-helplines/

GLOBAL: https://checkpointorg.com/global/

SUPPORT FOR FRONT LINES WORKERS

USA text 741741

UK text 85258

CANADA text 741741  and (https://cpa.ca/corona-virus/psychservices/)

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