This September, we’re inviting friends, accomplices, and fellow travellers to Berlin for four days of conversation, practical work, and collective reflection on the politics and tactics of pirate care, a term that names how care continues to be organised outside legality, against austerity, and in spite of repression.
Decades of neoliberal policy, racialised border regimes, and extractive governance have dismantled the infrastructures of collective life. In the passage from welfare to warfare capitalism, access to care is rendered once more either a privatized commodity, a tool for discipline, or a crime.
And yet, mutual aid kitchens appear. Clinics emerge in squats. People cross checkpoints. Medics strike. We find each other in makeshift care rooms that shouldn’t exist, at borders that shouldn’t be there, in shadow archives where forbidden knowledges circulate in moments where grief turns into organising.
This September, we gather in Berlin to tend to this work. To name it, share it, test it, stretch it.
