The Caring Imagination is an AngelHousePress initiative to aid those involved in the creation, production, and dissemination of art to act with compassion. It will be a hub for discussions and resources towards compassionate and equitable practices that intersect with race, culture, class, disability, gender, and sexual orientation. The primary focus of the site will be on small press, visual poetry, and literary activity.
MISSION
To center, support and amplify the voices of systemically excluded artists and cultural workers.
To increase awareness and knowledge of arts resources that prioritize inclusion, equity, and social justice.
To provide links to practical how to guides on creating, producing and disseminating art with compassion.
MASTHEAD
Editor
Amanda Earl (she/her), Canada
Advisors
- Cat Chong (they/them), UK
- Shloka Shankar (she/her), India
- Jacqueline Valencia (she/they), Canada
- Rae White (they/them), Australia
- Terri Witek (she/they), USA
Inspiration
- MONA ELTAHAWAY, Feminist Giant
- SOPHIA UFY UKOR, Violet Simon
- JOHANNA HEDVA, Sick Woman Theory: “The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. To take seriously each other’s vulnerability and fragility and precarity, and to support it, honor it, empower it. To protect each other, to enact and practice a community of support. A radical kinship, an interdependent sociality, a politics of care.”
LONG-TERM YEAR PLAN
To raise money to commission guides that are specific to the small press, visual poetry and literary communities, and to pay active advisors.
THANK YOU
Thank you to the creators of these resources and to Nora Rahimian. I learned of the term “systematically excluded” from her on Twitter.