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on October 21, 2020

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Some photographs from my recce at Mrs Singhs Art Laundrette in September

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Collective Care Pamphlets

COLLECTIVE CARE PAMPHLETS Two sided pamphlets folded into little packages that have some simple and accessible information about what collective care is, what it can do, and what does it look like in times of struggle. On the outside of the pamphlet is an excerpt from " Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plant" by Robin Wall Kimmerer . “Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them. Introduce yourself. Be accountable as the one who comes asking for life. Ask permission before taking. Abide by the answer. Never take the first. Never take the last. Take only what you need. Take only that which is given. Never take more than half. Leave some for others. Harvest in a way that minimises harm. Use it respectfully. Never waste what you have taken. Share. Give thanks for what you have been given. Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken. Sustain the ones who sustain you and th...

Intergeneration Care in the British South Asian Community

Wednesday 15th July 2020 "Care" In the stillness of a global lockdown there has been a growing amount of visibility of the institutionalised murders of black, brown and trans people across the world and in our very own communities. Many difficult and needed conversations have come to light and institutions and communities using the word "diversity" have been called out on their failures. We are now discussing a more dangerous kind of oppression that lies in our health, care and education systems and our access to opportunity (without being tokenised or being white/pink washed as a commodity). The systemic privilege system exists in every part of our communities and has the power to tear apart exactly the community that we need so dearly right now (Brexit for example). Hopefully we are all on a journey of decolonising our minds and actively trying to unlearn and recognise how to stop white supremacist systems in our everyday practises. We are actively questionin...

Crescent Moon Rituals and Community Care Every crescent moon my mother and her sisters cook huge pots of rice and sweet rice to feed members of our spiritual community. I've been brought up around these ideals and ideas about how we create community, uphold community practises so they become tradition and how a community can care for each other. Over the past weeks Ive been interviewing members of my family, laundrette workers and friends who work closely with mutual aid in Glasgow about the word community and the word care. We have been speaking about the space of Laundrettes becoming either a real meeting place for community or a more metaphorical kind of community space. In these images I documented my mother making the monthly traditional meal that will feed over 40 people in our community, a tradition that has been upheld for generations in my family. Usually all members would come to my family house to eat this meal together but because of Covid-19 my mother has been cookin...

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