6/27/2023 0 Comments Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva![]() ![]() To take on the historically feminized and therefore invisible practice of nursing, nurturing, caring. ![]() “The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another and to care for yourself. ![]() “How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?” Hedva asks it was the first place I was introduced to the anticapitalist power of material care, and of communities organized around it: I had just organized a funeral with over Zoom for a family member lost to COVID, the police were shutting down the highways every night, and I couldn’t stop thinking about Sick Woman Theory. Months ago, when the twin arcs of the pandemic and the uprising started converging in front of us, while I was dropping off mask donations for protesters and all the hardware stores were sold out of both gloves and traffic cones for capturing tear gas canisters, I found myself thinking about a piece from writer, artist, musician, and astrologer Johanna Hedva I had read in 2015, originally in Mask Magazine.
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