Troubling Care
Issue 21.2 | Spring 2026

Troubling Care

Guest Edited by Premilla Nadasen and Alex Pittman

About this Issue
Sandra Moyano-Ariza

Introduction
Premilla Nadasen and Alex Pittman

Part 1: Life-Making Within and Against Colonialism

Groundings: Caribbean Counternarratives in the Understories of Care
Alissa Trotz and Beverley Mullings

Radical Care Is Recovery: Maneuvering Climate Displacement in New York City
Lisa Jahn

The Eugenics of Aging Under Israeli Settler Colonialism
Rachel Brown

Part 2: Maternal Movements

“Why Are These Our Only Alternatives, and What Kind of Struggle Will Move Us Beyond Them?”: Making Art with My Children on Silvia Federici’s Wages for Housework Papers
Carmen Winant

“Without Mother, You’d Have No People”: Mother Power as the Force Behind Welfare Rights
Gwendolyn Fowler

Care and the Family Policing System: A Dialogue with Joyce McMillan
Michelle E. Grier, Vivianne Guevara, Joyce McMillan

Part 3: Mobilizing New Care Imaginaries

Damayan: A Transnational and Intergenerational Legacy of Care and Resistance
Linda Oalican and Riya Ortiz

Reclaiming “Association”: From Solidarity to Common Cause
Miriam Ticktin

Organizing from the Garage: A Tribute to the Legacy of Myrtle Witbooi
Jennifer N. Fish 

The View from the Tents: Caring at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment
Anonymous

Image credit: Favianna Rodriguez, “An Invitation EV 1/10,” 2017.

This issue was made possible in part by a grant from the Columbia University Center for Political Economy and a Willen Seminar award, hosted by the Barnard College Committee on Faculty Development and Diversity.