Crisis And Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic

Crisis and Care reveals what is possible when activists mobilize for radical change. Contributors provide a lens for future activists to make change, even or perhaps especially, during periods of crisis.Crisis and Care presents compelling essays by activists who mobilized during the pandemic to fight for prison abolition, queer health data, sexual health, medicare for all, and more.Shanker's first book Bodies and Barriers received critical acclaim from Library Journal, Book Riot, Philadelphia Gay News, and more.Rea Carey, author of the Foreword, is one of the LGBTQ movement's most respected activists and national leaders.
Crisis and Care reveals what is possible when activists mobilize for the radical changes our society needs. In a time of great uncertainty, fear, and isolation, Queer activists organized for health equity, prison abolition, racial justice, and more. Nobody who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic will soon forget the challenges, sacrifices, and incredible loss felt during such an uncertain time in history. Crisis and Care anthologizes not what happened during COVID-19, or why it happened, but rather how Queer activists responded in real time. It considers the necessity to memorialize resiliency as well as loss, hope as well as pain, to remember the strides forward as well as the steps back. Activist contributors Zephyr Williams, Mark Travis Rivera, Jamie Gliksburg, Denise Spivak, Emmett Patterson, Omar Gonzales-Pagan, Kenyon Farrow, and more provide a radical lens through which future activists can consider effective strategies to make change, even or perhaps especially, during periods of crisis.