This interactive workshop will support participants interested in building abolitionist care networks.

In part one of the workshop, Ndindi will offer insights and missteps from their work at Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA), an abolitionist network of care based in Palms, Los Angeles, CA.

Topics to be explored include: 1) Conditions for unhoused Black, Indigenous, and other people of color under racialized capital and the carceral state; 2) Neoliberal "care" and “safety” systems; 3) Gender oppression, social reproduction, and care work under capitalism; 4) Potential for abolitionist healing and people-centered community care that centers unhoused and precariously housed people in housing justice movements.

Part two of the workshop explores the intersection of cultural identity and well-being through cultural rituals, harm-reductionist principles, trauma-informed care concepts, and asset-based approaches to healing. Participants will also be invited to examine their own resilience and protective factors while developing frameworks for dignity-centered community care.