On Health Autonomy: Reflections on Care Beyond Austerity and Crisis
Channel: Common Notions
Date: 2021-03-25

Our present way of life is a war against our bodies. How can health autonomy help us collectively build safe & healthy lives worth living?

About this Event
The past year has intensified the need to liberate knowledges, practices, and infrastructure to collectively heal ourselves and transform the societal conditions that continue to mentally and physically harm us. In this discussion, friends from the CareNotes Collective will present For Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care Beyond Austerity—Reflections from Greece and explore the landscape of care spaces coordinated by autonomous collectives in Greece.

The book offers a powerful collection of first-hand accounts of how collectives conceptualized health autonomy and liberated spaces and practices to address a complex array of health needs. We'll then delve into questions and practices many of our spaces have been exploring in the past year around health autonomy and its potentiality for transforming our own communities.

More info here: https://www.commonnotions.org/carenotes

ABOUT CARENOTES COLLECTIVE:
Intensifying inequality and state violence have heightened the need to deepen our capacity to resist, offer concrete alternatives, and reproduce ourselves in the process. CareNotes Collective organizes directly on this terrain and seeks to record and amplify the experiences of those struggling for health autonomy in their own communities. It is inspired by efforts to protect our bodies and environment emerging from those of us left with few other means of sustaining daily life. Simultaneously, it follows efforts of care workers committed to our general well-being (educators, healthcare, farm workers, social workers, neighbors, mothers, autonomous networks) whom are also devalued or even criminalized yet are central to creating sites of counterpower where we can collectively defend and care for one another while resisting the violence of capitalist life.

SUGGESTED READINGS:
For Health Autonomy (Common Notions, 2020)
"Towards Health Autonomy" (Mask, 2017)

Cosponsored with Woodbine Social Center. Please support Woodbine so they can keep the space going.