CARE & COMMUNITY

In uncertain times, caring for one another, our ecosystems and their non-human elements, is radical. As late-stage capitalism and other systems of oppressions leave us alienated and disconnected from our body, mind, peers and nature, care is also political. Neoliberal models of care focus on individualistic and productivity-maximizing approaches that dismiss neurodivergent aspects of the human mind. Radical practices of care based in communities and embodiment can support us in prefiguring alternative futures for collective liberation. With the theme Community & Care, Otherwise would like to explore the unifying and liberatory political aspects of neurodiversity and its positionality in communities and society. With Community & Care we would like to bring more diversity into the way of collectively imagining, sensing and relating to one another to better understand how to care for one another.