Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Publisher Pluto Press
Author Marina Sitrin, Colectiva Sembrar
In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of COVID-19. The world's media was quick to weave a narrative of selfish individualism, full of empty supermarket shelves and con-men. However, if you scratch the surface, you find a different story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions, including India, Rojava, Taiwan, South Africa, Iraq and North America, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture, revealing a universality of experience. Moving beyond the present, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like, and reflect the skills and relationships we already have to create that society, challenging institutions of power that have already shown their fragility.
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Author Marina Sitrin, Colectiva Sembrar
In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of COVID-19. The world's media was quick to weave a narrative of selfish individualism, full of empty supermarket shelves and con-men. However, if you scratch the surface, you find a different story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions, including India, Rojava, Taiwan, South Africa, Iraq and North America, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture, revealing a universality of experience. Moving beyond the present, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like, and reflect the skills and relationships we already have to create that society, challenging institutions of power that have already shown their fragility.
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Cigale 2, Déplacements / Displacements
Cigale 2, Déplacements / Displacements
Publisher Cigale
Author Anne-Marie Trépanier & Laure Bourgault (eds.)
On the theme of “Displacements,” this issue of Cigale offers a reflection on the multiple trajectories of the living and non-living; the migrations that result from human activity—employment crisis, political turmoil or climate change—and cause an accelerated reconfiguration of ways of living that affect all forms of life. This is the second issue of Cigale, a bilingual periodical publication of contemporary artists’ writings. Cigale aims to foster the meeting of ideas beyond geographic and linguistic boundaries by offering a fully bilingual collection of texts (French/English). Free-from contributions are assembled in thematic dossiers, echoing the social, political and poetic movements that are shaking our world. In all its multiple expressions, writing appears as a way to apprehend the ecologies in which we live. We conceive of our publication as a vehicle for circulating these written traces beyond their point of origin. For each issue, Cigale shares targeted calls within its pool of previous contributors in order to create an ever-expanding interconnected network of collaborating artists. Until it becomes eligible for governmental grants, the publication is primarily funded through employment assistance programs and university grants.
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Author Anne-Marie Trépanier & Laure Bourgault (eds.)
On the theme of “Displacements,” this issue of Cigale offers a reflection on the multiple trajectories of the living and non-living; the migrations that result from human activity—employment crisis, political turmoil or climate change—and cause an accelerated reconfiguration of ways of living that affect all forms of life. This is the second issue of Cigale, a bilingual periodical publication of contemporary artists’ writings. Cigale aims to foster the meeting of ideas beyond geographic and linguistic boundaries by offering a fully bilingual collection of texts (French/English). Free-from contributions are assembled in thematic dossiers, echoing the social, political and poetic movements that are shaking our world. In all its multiple expressions, writing appears as a way to apprehend the ecologies in which we live. We conceive of our publication as a vehicle for circulating these written traces beyond their point of origin. For each issue, Cigale shares targeted calls within its pool of previous contributors in order to create an ever-expanding interconnected network of collaborating artists. Until it becomes eligible for governmental grants, the publication is primarily funded through employment assistance programs and university grants.
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THE CRISIS TIMES
THE CRISIS TIMES
Publisher MOMENTUM RESEARCH
Author Eirik Steinhoff (compositor)
THE CRISIS TIMES flared out of the early phase of the pandemic - contents range from poetry to political theory to pertinent historical documents, with a variety of imagery and sloganeering to inflect the proceedings withal. It responds to the moment by insisting on asking the question, again and again: what needs to be the case for things to be otherwise?
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Author Eirik Steinhoff (compositor)
THE CRISIS TIMES flared out of the early phase of the pandemic - contents range from poetry to political theory to pertinent historical documents, with a variety of imagery and sloganeering to inflect the proceedings withal. It responds to the moment by insisting on asking the question, again and again: what needs to be the case for things to be otherwise?
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Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis
Publisher Queer.Archive.Work
Author Paul Soulellis, editor
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis began with a 10-day open call that was announced on March 18, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call for work was motivated by two desires: 1—to collectively document some of the extraordinary conditions, dynamics, and emotions being experienced while in quarantine, and 2—to provide some relief to artists and writers impacted by the crisis, in both creative and monetary forms. How might publishing as artistic practice embody communal care? More than 100 artists and writers submitted work, mostly generated during quarantine. Contributors were compensated a total of $2,295, using funds from a 2020 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant, plus an anonymous donation. 65 of the 110 contributors donated their share of the compensation back to the pool, resulting in 45 contributors each receiving a stipend of $51. An edition of 25 copies of Urgency Reader 2 was printed and assembled at Queer.Archive.Work during the first week of April 2020. A high-quality scan of the printed edition is available for free download (see below). Physical copies of the reader have been permanently placed in our library for future visitors
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Author Paul Soulellis, editor
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis began with a 10-day open call that was announced on March 18, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call for work was motivated by two desires: 1—to collectively document some of the extraordinary conditions, dynamics, and emotions being experienced while in quarantine, and 2—to provide some relief to artists and writers impacted by the crisis, in both creative and monetary forms. How might publishing as artistic practice embody communal care? More than 100 artists and writers submitted work, mostly generated during quarantine. Contributors were compensated a total of $2,295, using funds from a 2020 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant, plus an anonymous donation. 65 of the 110 contributors donated their share of the compensation back to the pool, resulting in 45 contributors each receiving a stipend of $51. An edition of 25 copies of Urgency Reader 2 was printed and assembled at Queer.Archive.Work during the first week of April 2020. A high-quality scan of the printed edition is available for free download (see below). Physical copies of the reader have been permanently placed in our library for future visitors
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