“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
The Issue with Care Edited by Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Katharina Fink & Nadine Siegert.
Labor, Love & P*leisure in times of loss and uncertainty.
This volume comes from an impulse of needing to think, imagine and feel care whilst living through several global pandemics: COVID-19, racism, femicide, queercide, climate crisis. The years are 2020 and 2021 and sud- denly the need for radical care is heightened. These years remind- ed us about the relational ethics needed for cultivating and engaging with care. Caring for others is caring for the self. Care is a verb, meaning that it is a sensorial and shared practice in principle. While care and caring seem to be essential aspects of humanity, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa’s theorisation of care reminds us that care is ambivalent, complex and speculative because it means different things to different people.
Comes with an A3 poster with poem by Beauty Boois and handwritten quotations by all authors included.