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We’re excited to announce the first edition of the Feminist Library care zine. Read more about it in a note from the volunteers behind it and follow the link below to read in full. 

We've been working on CARE IN A PANDEMIC over the last couple of months and want to thank all contributors for their work and their patience whilst we put this together!

An excerpt from our Editor's letter:

"Care is a core component of a radical feminist ethos that is often dismissed as an incomplete methodology for revolution. Something about care is too soft, too facile to sustain us. Yet, as our submissions will show, care means many things. It is the principle at the root of resistance; we struggle, we oppose, because we know that we could live differently, and that the other worlds that we strive for are worlds where callousness and indifference to suffering are impossible. Care requires us to exert our energy with and for others, to replace the cult of the individual with commitment to understanding and supporting one another. It is the life-blood of networks of mutual aid that are keeping so many alive at this moment, it is the way we attempt to keep ourselves nourished in a time of mass death and grieving. It provides the impetus for solidarity, acts of service and the dissemination of political education. Care means extending our protection and the consideration to all. It means we must craft political futures that attend to everyone’s needs by first naming the problems (capitalism, racism, gendered violence). Care means treating each other as if we were family, recognising the ways our lives are interlinked and fundamentally inseparable. Care means all of us or nothing."

You can view the zine using this link! It is also available as a PDF and we'll hopefully be circulating paper copies once the library reopens.

with love and solidarity,
Lola, Rhiannon, Cristina and Jennifer  

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