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This chapter explores the multiple practices of collective care in Filipina/x/o American (FA) youth and womxn’s community organizing. Drawing from kuwentuhan interviews (Filipino modes of talk-story) with FA youth and women’s activists in the transnational National Democratic movement, I ask how FA activists conceptualize and practice care to create intergenerational “communities of care” which sustain both life in their local communities, as well as the capacity of their organizing efforts. Three modes of care emerge from their stories, namely: material care through resource sharing and mutual aid; building “collective life” in their organizations to strengthen group ties and “humanize” the movement; and interpersonal-emotional support, which helps address the tensions of community organizing and build relationships that strengthen the longevity of their efforts. Further, I discuss how these care practices are informed by activists’ political analysis, constituting a praxis through which organizers create “communities of care” which simultaneously serve as a site of restoration and resistance under the conditions wrought by oppressive systems.

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Toward Communities of Care as Political Praxis: Collective Care in Transnational Filipina/x/o American Organizing

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    2025年

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  • Annelle Maranan Garcia

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This chapter explores the multiple practices of collective care in Filipina/x/o American (FA) youth and womxn’s community organizing. Drawing from kuwentuhan interviews (Filipino modes of talk-story) with FA youth and women’s activists in the transnational National Democratic movement, I ask how FA activists conceptualize and practice care to create intergenerational “communities of care” which sustain both life in their local communities, as well as the capacity of their organizing efforts. Three modes of care emerge from their stories, namely: material care through resource sharing and mutual aid; building “collective life” in their organizations to strengthen group ties and “humanize” the movement; and interpersonal-emotional support, which helps address the tensions of community organizing and build relationships that strengthen the longevity of their efforts. Further, I discuss how these care practices are informed by activists’ political analysis, constituting a praxis through which organizers create “communities of care” which simultaneously serve as a site of restoration and resistance under the conditions wrought by oppressive systems.