NOVEMBER 23, 2025
Led by Tara White, Ilja Schamle & Aimeé Phillips
When: 20:30 - 22:00
Location: Living Room
Drawing on inspiration from the text, PIRATE CARE: ACTS AGAINST THE CRIMINALIZATION OF SOLIDARITY, we’d like to explore the vital gestures of kindness that already pulse through our communities: the shared medication in trans networks, the anonymous digital care of open-source software, the mutual aid that catches us when systems let us fall.
This is for anyone who believes gifting care is a right, not a commodity. For those who find hope in friendship, friction in "agonism," and power in solidarity.
Together we will:
- Unpack new words: We'll challenge the vocabulary of "economy" and begin to find language for the exchanges that we collectively feel matter.
- Explore "Pirate-Care": We'll look at examples of how people organise care for bodies that the world often neglects.
- Participate in a collective gift exchange: Experience a simple moment of giving that asks, What does it mean to care for someone we don't know, or someone we disagree with? or How can we extend care beyond the boundaries of friendship?
- Share Entry Points: Leave with a shared list of resources, ideas, and questions to continue the journey.
- Shared stories and a collective gift-conjuring moment, we’ll ask: How we can practice care without requiring friendship, exchange or similarity?
- Together, we’ll begin to build a new vocabulary for how we care for one another.
Practically:
Each participant will have an envelope where they can note down their thoughts on what it means to be cared for. and what gifting and care might mean to them. We will invite you to draw another person's name at random, fostering a gifting infrastructure for our time at PAF. This could mean a range of things, from gestures to little gifts left behind in the envelope or beyond.
This student initiative is facilitated by DAI by making it part of the syllabus 2025-2026 and by providing space and time for gathering. It is embedded in the curriculum component WEAVER and participation is credited with ECTS.
