This is quite a good article looking at forms of activism that focus on quiet acts of caring rather than amplification of a message or platform (and we could, by analogy, speak of 'education in a minor key', making many of the same points). Rianka Singh takes as a starting point the work of Saidiya Hartman, who describes a movement "driven not by uplift or the struggle for recognition or citizenship, but by the vision of a world that would guarantee to every human being free access to earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations." There's some good analysis in the article - the idea of 'platform inclination' as an alternative to 'standing up to' or 'against' something, the idea of producing hope rather than "looking for hope in the sky," the distinction between "a performance of care" as opposed to "doing the work of care," and connective action and the practice of 'communicative labour' "to make the point that the media use at the point of organizing rather than more visible forms of resistance."
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