Join us for Session one with Jalessah T. Jackson (they/them) - an interdisciplinary cultural worker, educator, writer, and organizer. With a background in Black Studies, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cultural Studies she researches and teaches about critical theories of race, gender, class, sexualities, disability and resistance movements.

This session will focus on answering the question: Who performs care that sustains life, and under what conditions? Through a decolonial/Black feminist lens, this session explores the intersection of racial capitalism, social reproduction, and the international division of labor, emphasizing the ways that race, gender, class, and migration shape local and global care economies.

We will examine how reproductive labor – including unwaged caring work – is systematically devalued, racialized, gendered, and outsourced across borders. Participants will analyze contemporary struggles faced by care workers, and explore strategies for resistance and solidarity.

By interrogating who cares, for whom, and at what cost, this session will illuminate the urgent need for alternative models of care that challenge exploitation and affirm collective well-being.

Care For The People

NEC is hosting a series that will ground us in lessons from movements, change makers, and organizers that engage different approaches to creative collective solidarity. It is becoming increasingly clear that people will have to rely on and care for each other more and more after years of purposeful abandonment from those in power. This series will highlight concrete ideas, strategies, and practices for creating solidarity and conditions where care is centralized. If we are to resist policies of violence and economies of war what are our alternatives? How can we expand our ideas? How can we encourage collective consciousness and reject apathy and individualism?

Series Timeline: Every other month in 2025 Beginning in February 2025 1pm est, 12pm ct, 10am pst.