"As care workers, we wish to see writing that
encompasses the spectrum of who we are
alongside that of who we care for.
We want to make visible the many faces of care
work and to celebrate care work itself.
Writing together, sharing together, is care work.
This is our care work intervention."
Contributors:
maula (she/her) is an advocate, educator, doula, facilitator, metastatic cancer survivor, and nurse. She is queer and a child of Filipino immigrants. Grounded in social justice, she strives to support people moving forward in their lives, regardless of their challenges. She believes that everything is interconnected — by understanding our woven histories, we can begin to dismantle oppression and work toward a just world. When avoiding writing, she can be found crafting, baking, or finding ways to have amazing conversations.
K. Thekkumkattil (they/them) is a nonbinary femme writer and Critical Care nurse. With the perspective of a queer and trans, sober, kinky, chronically ill and disabled, South Asian child of immigrants, their writing is informed by disability justice, consent and negotiation practices from BDSM, the politics of care work, grief, intergenerational trauma, alcoholism, ancestral wisdom, relationship with land, and queer theory.
mieko ryu (they/them) is a multi-ethnic East Asian trans sensation and full time sad queer. They grew up in an agricultural community surrounded by elders and babies, out of which they built the practice of nourishing relationships of all shapes. They write poems about grief, desire, and the body, informed in part by their work in the mental health field for over a decade. They dream of an earth where we all do right by each other.
SYP (she/her) is a queer cantonese & jewish nurse living on the Olympic Peninsula and working in the local rural emergency department. Inspired to become a nurse through experiences as a street medic, she still works, writes, and organizes at the intersections of healthcare systems, land stewardship, and community care. She takes her perspectives from the hospital into grassroots projects and in turn, these spaces hold her accountable to patients and loved ones.
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Malaya Tuyay (she/they) is a queer mixed Filipinx artist and organizer based on Ohlone Land (Oakland, CA). Through art, she seeks to initiate conversations and bring people together to exchange personal histories and collectively empower each other to create a radically new world. They put this theory to practice by supporting mutual aid care networks and organizing to support frontline environmental defenders and Indigenous communities in Mindanao, Philippines.
