Lesson 4.3: Care & Survival in Exile
This topic explores aspects of survival and political resistance that are often intangible—emotional support, informal care, and everyday acts of solidarity—but we will anchor these in concrete examples to try and grasp them. We learn how care, friendship, and solidarity networks sustain life in exile and become the infrastructure of political agency. In contexts where institutions fail, these acts of mutual support are not simply emotional responses - they are political practices that make survival possible.
6. EXTRA: Additonal Resources
Additional Recourses
Watch
● Beyond Borders: Feminist Solidarity in Exile (DW Documentary, 2023)
● Transnational Queer Networks (EuroCentralAsia LGBTI, 2024)
● ReFOCUS Media Labs films, https://refocusmedialabs.org/our-productions
Listen
● Migration Matters Podcast, Ep. 5 — “Digital Resistance and Diaspora Care”
● Belarus Feminist Voices (Spotify Series, 2022)
Dean Spade, Andrea Ritchie, Victoria Law, Pauline Rogers, Jarvis Benson (2020) Study and Struggle 2: Abolition, Intersectionality, and Care. Haymarket, 30 September (https://www.youtube.com/live/T5xefwldPLk?si=-xFwcgyRkc3LS4t3)
Vanessa E. Thompson (2021) Policing, Abolitionist Intersectional Care, Surviving Society Podcast, April 6 (https://soundcloud.com/user-622675754/s1e5-vanessa-e-thompson-policing-abolitionist-intersectional-care)