The Hologram: Feminist, Peer to Peer Health for a Post Pandemic Future (Cassie Thornton)
Channel: ReImaginingValue ActionLab
Date: 2021-09-13

A short book available from the VAGABONDS series of Pluto Press in July 2020 - https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343327/the-hologram/

The Hologram: Feminist, Peer to Peer Health for a Post Pandemic Future 
by Cassie Thornton

IN AN ERA when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal self-care offering little more than a bandaid, how can we take health and care back into our hands? In The Hologram, Cassie Thornton puts forward a bold vision for revolutionary care: a viral, peer-to-peer feminist health network.
The premise is simple: three people – a triangle – meet on a regular basis, digitally or in person, to focus on the physical, mental and social health of a fourth – the hologram. The hologram, in turn, teaches their caregivers how to give and also receive care; each member of their triangle becomes a hologram for another, different triangle, and so the system expands.
Drawing on radical models developed in the Greek solidarity clinics during a decade of crisis, and directly engaging with discussions around mutual aid and the coronavirus pandemic, The Hologram develops the skills and relationships we desperately need for the anti-capitalist struggles of the present, and the post-capitalist society of the future. One part art, one part activism, one part science fiction, this book offers the reader a guide to establishing a Hologram network as well as reflections on this cooperative work in progress.
More information: https://vagabonds.xyz/the-hologram/