The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future
The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future
Publisher Pluto Press
Author Cassie Thornton
In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal 'self-care' offering little more than a bandaid, how can we take health and care back into our hands? In The Hologram, Cassie Thornton puts forward a bold vision for revolutionary care: a viral, peer-to-peer feminist health network. The premise is simple: three people - a 'triangle' - meet on a regular basis, digitally or in person, to focus on the physical, mental and social health of a fourth - the 'hologram'. The hologram, in turn, teaches their caregivers how to give and also receive care; each member of their triangle becomes a hologram for another, different triangle, and so the system expands. Drawing on radical models developed in the Greek solidarity clinics during a decade of crisis, and directly engaging with discussions around mutual aid and the coronavirus pandemic, The Hologram develops the skills and relationships we desperately need for the anti-capitalist struggles of the present, and the post-capitalist society of the future. One part art, one part activism, one part science fiction, this book offers the reader a guide to establishing a Hologram network as well as reflections on this cooperative work in progress.
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Author Cassie Thornton
In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal 'self-care' offering little more than a bandaid, how can we take health and care back into our hands? In The Hologram, Cassie Thornton puts forward a bold vision for revolutionary care: a viral, peer-to-peer feminist health network. The premise is simple: three people - a 'triangle' - meet on a regular basis, digitally or in person, to focus on the physical, mental and social health of a fourth - the 'hologram'. The hologram, in turn, teaches their caregivers how to give and also receive care; each member of their triangle becomes a hologram for another, different triangle, and so the system expands. Drawing on radical models developed in the Greek solidarity clinics during a decade of crisis, and directly engaging with discussions around mutual aid and the coronavirus pandemic, The Hologram develops the skills and relationships we desperately need for the anti-capitalist struggles of the present, and the post-capitalist society of the future. One part art, one part activism, one part science fiction, this book offers the reader a guide to establishing a Hologram network as well as reflections on this cooperative work in progress.
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Wash Your Hands
Wash Your Hands
Publisher Pound the Pavement
Author Josh MacPhee
A couple years ago I started photographing graphics of hands I found on signage out in the world, particularly ones containing two hands. I had an idea to use them to create a zine called "Many Hands Make Light Work" (which I might still do someday…), but the reality is that almost all of the graphics with two hands were from bathrooms: hand washing instructions. Not so useful for a project about labor, but strangely perfect for one about a pandemic. "Wash Your Hands" contains 78 instructional icons about washing and drying your hands, collected between 2015–2020, assembled into four 5.5” x 5.5” booklets and an 11” x 17” poster, packaged in a riso-printed envelope.
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Author Josh MacPhee
A couple years ago I started photographing graphics of hands I found on signage out in the world, particularly ones containing two hands. I had an idea to use them to create a zine called "Many Hands Make Light Work" (which I might still do someday…), but the reality is that almost all of the graphics with two hands were from bathrooms: hand washing instructions. Not so useful for a project about labor, but strangely perfect for one about a pandemic. "Wash Your Hands" contains 78 instructional icons about washing and drying your hands, collected between 2015–2020, assembled into four 5.5” x 5.5” booklets and an 11” x 17” poster, packaged in a riso-printed envelope.
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COVID-19 Action & Informative Design Series
COVID-19 Action & Informative Design Series
Publisher Instagram/Raina Wellman/Lauren Sarkissian
Author Raina Wellman (and certain collabs with Lauren Sarkissian)
This document is made up of informational posts I created to inform people about COVID-19 and other health/social issues. I took inspiration from my ongoing research project on infectious disease & visual communication, which has primarily focused on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, syphilis, and smallpox. The projects “Shame is a Bad Public Health Tool”, “Pandemiquette,” “Assessing Symptoms and Risks,” “COVID-19 Updates,” and “Practical Guide to Protesting & Pandemic Prevention” were created in collaboration with Lauren Sarkissian, a MPH candidate at University of Washington. Both in collaborations with Lauren and independently, the goal of this work is to make urgent and often complicated information accessible, clear, and based in ongoing research.
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Author Raina Wellman (and certain collabs with Lauren Sarkissian)
This document is made up of informational posts I created to inform people about COVID-19 and other health/social issues. I took inspiration from my ongoing research project on infectious disease & visual communication, which has primarily focused on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, syphilis, and smallpox. The projects “Shame is a Bad Public Health Tool”, “Pandemiquette,” “Assessing Symptoms and Risks,” “COVID-19 Updates,” and “Practical Guide to Protesting & Pandemic Prevention” were created in collaboration with Lauren Sarkissian, a MPH candidate at University of Washington. Both in collaborations with Lauren and independently, the goal of this work is to make urgent and often complicated information accessible, clear, and based in ongoing research.
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Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After Covid-19: Insisting on Structures for Grief and Time
Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After Covid-19: Insisting on Structures for Grief and Time
Publisher Thick Press
Author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Thick Press' "printout" series gives physical form to digital content. The publication, "Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After COVID-19: Insisting on Structures for Grief and Time" is a transcribed conversation between Thick Press and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, author of "Stages: On dying, working, and feeling" (Thick Press, 2020). The digital version of the conversation appeared on April 23, 2020 on Dirtdmv.com, an independent platform, collective, and resource for critical arts discourse. The conversation is an extension of a project in which Rachel made a play with nursing home staff, and then created a poetic, hybrid-genre book about that experience. In conversation with Thick Press, Rachel shows how writing, public art, and living an emotionally engaged life has the potential to politicize care work and healthcare.
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Author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Thick Press' "printout" series gives physical form to digital content. The publication, "Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After COVID-19: Insisting on Structures for Grief and Time" is a transcribed conversation between Thick Press and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, author of "Stages: On dying, working, and feeling" (Thick Press, 2020). The digital version of the conversation appeared on April 23, 2020 on Dirtdmv.com, an independent platform, collective, and resource for critical arts discourse. The conversation is an extension of a project in which Rachel made a play with nursing home staff, and then created a poetic, hybrid-genre book about that experience. In conversation with Thick Press, Rachel shows how writing, public art, and living an emotionally engaged life has the potential to politicize care work and healthcare.
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We Expand: A Black Women's Herbal
We Expand: A Black Women's Herbal
Publisher Anklebiters Publishing
Author Lyric Hunter (editor)
We Expand: A Black Women's Herbal is a creative herbal-- a collection of recipes, stories, poems, and artwork intended to nourish Black women's bodies and spirits-- that emerged in the aftermath of the 2016 election. The herbal features the voices of Black women and nonbinary people, and it is for the Black women, the Black transwomen, and the Black nonbinary people who are tired.
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Author Lyric Hunter (editor)
We Expand: A Black Women's Herbal is a creative herbal-- a collection of recipes, stories, poems, and artwork intended to nourish Black women's bodies and spirits-- that emerged in the aftermath of the 2016 election. The herbal features the voices of Black women and nonbinary people, and it is for the Black women, the Black transwomen, and the Black nonbinary people who are tired.
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