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who provides care, both paid and unpaid, and what is the right balance between the responsibilities of families, communities and the state.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
In her excellent book Forced to Care, Evelyn Nakano Glenn refers to this ongoing scenario as a care crisis. It’s not just that there isn’t enough care — it’s that those who end up providing it are coerced, in some form, to do so.
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
the basic need to give and receive care has been a feature of the human condition since the dawn of time. The goal of a humane, effective and sustainable care system – something that is set to touch the lives of millions of us – continues to defy resolution and in some respects we have gone backwards.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
we all have needs that need to be tended to. I always wonder, what if care is the work? What if caring for ourselves is the revolution, meaning, what would happen if we divested from dismantling white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and invested our energy in equitizing the care we are able to provide one another?