Feminist Dream Labs: Practices for Caring Through Crises

In an era of interlocking planetary crises, how can we kindle an imagined future that is better than today? Feminist Dream Labs invites scholars and activists to reflect on their own daily practices and to articulate their dreams of better caring relations that centre community and build resilience for crises.

The result is a critical compilation that examines how we enact care in a post-Covid era and contemplates alternatives. Contributors analyze caring activities in a range of institutional and community settings. From prison abolition to trans health and inclusion, from protecting non-human species to putting dinner on the table, the essential work of those who care is shaping the future of culture and community despite the fatigue and anger of our times.

Feminist Dream Labs utilizes a framework of feminist, anti-racist, and Indigenous thought to ask how our everyday caring practices might shape a more inclusive future.

Amanda D. Watson is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and associate member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University, and the author of The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety. Her work has been published in Studies in Social Justice, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice. Reema Faris is a limited term lecturer in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. She is a contributor to Gender in Canada: A Companion Workbook, edited by Rebecca Yoshizawa, and to Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion: International Workshop Proceedings, edited by Habiba Zaman, Shaojun Chen, Xiujie Zhu, and Sanzida Habib.