The world we dream of is already here

“Offers the conversations we need to sustain the possibility of anarchist, feminist, and queer world-making in the ruins of everyday brutality”—Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Touching the Art

“An antidote to the commodification of care”—Sundus Abdul Hadi, author of Take Care of Your Self

“Brings together all kinds of veterans of liberatory experiments in comradeship and kin-making, providing valuable insight”—Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family

What do we do when the state has abandoned us? From failing health systems to housing crises to cascading ecological collapse, it’s increasingly evident that state-centered politics do not protect us from the violence of colonialism and capitalism, fascism and patriarchy. In fact, they actively work to harm us.

Anarchist feminism—or anarcha-feminism—shows us that the ways we tend to our social relations can build a new world inside the old one. We can take care of each other when nothing else will, supplying communal well-being and liberatory horizons.

From communitarian kitchens to medic collectives, squatted social centers to queer theater troupes, Ljubljana to Mexico City, Constellations of Care powerfully underscores that we already have everything we need and desire in one another to carve out lives worth living.

CINDY BARUKH MILSTEIN is a diasporic queer Jewish anarchist and longtime organizer. They’ve been writing on anarchism for over two decades, and are the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations and Try Anarchism for Life. They edited the anthologies Rebellious Mourning and Deciding for Ourselves, among others.

Prologue: Constellations of Care - Cindy Barukh Milstein

1. The Collective as a Crucial Form - Tahel Axel, Elias Lowe, Ami Weintraub, Leo Williamson-Rea, and Flip Zang
2. Our Affinity Is Our Manifesto - Mexico City–based feminist-anarchist affinity group in conversation with and translated by Scott Campbell
3. Tea, Books, and Thresholds - Corinne, Aurore, Éris, and Tom
4. Unsanctioned Sanctuaries: A Cross-Continental Exchange - Libertie Valance and Xela De La X
5. Tarps and Gossip: Existing as Resisting - Raani Begum
6. Brown Girl Rise: How We Take Care of Our Own - claire barrera
7. Colectiva Mujeres Subversivas: In Solidarity and Friendship - Lora Galora
8. Pink Peacock: Lavishly Accessible - Moishe Holleb in conversation with Alice Ross
9. Solidarity Apothecary: Reclaiming Life - Nicole Rose
10. North Star Health Collective: Tending to the Sparks - Mags Beall and Cory Maria Dack
11. Stitching Together Other Worlds - Cindy Barukh Milstein
12. Illustrating Anarcha-Feminism - Addy, Ali Cat, Aman, Andrea Narno, Anouk Kuona, Bree Busk, Erre, Feminist Collages PGH, Kill Joy, N.O. Bonzo, Rayan, Roan Boucher, Sugarbombing World, and Zola
13. Remembrance and Subversive Bodies in Motion - Bree Busk
14. Shakesqueer Tucson: Performing Anarcho-Feminism - Wren Awry
15. Communitarian Kitchens: Stoking the Flames of Memory and Rebellion - Vilma Rocío Almendra Quiguanás, translated by Scott Campbell
16. Supporting the Revolution, One Stew at a Time - Aleh Stankova and Fenya Fischler
17. An Experiment in Addressing Intraorganizational Violence - Benji Hart
18. Collectively Funding Abortion - Bayla (aka Bay) Ostrach
19. Abortion without Borders - Megan McGee
20. Transition and Autonomy - Scott/Shuli Branson
21. Movement Midwifery - Vicky Osterweil
22. How We Persisted as a New Anarcha Group in ljubljana - črne mačke
23. Do You Feel the Same? - Vilja Saarinen