Abstract 

Recent feminist, queer, trans, and sexuality studies work, alongside work in Black studies and critical ethnic studies, has rested on re-evaluating care– radical care, mutual aid, communities of care, care away from family unit, the medical industrial complex, the state, capitalism, and other infrastructural sites of remedy, remediation, restoration, and repair.  While we welcome this revaluation of a core feminist tenant and its recovery from dismissal because of care’s feminization, we seek to rethink the generative role of exhaustion in feminist theory and feminist institutional practice. 

Biographies 

Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of four books, most recently How We Write Now: Living With Black Feminist Theory (2024).

Samantha Pinto is Director of the Humanities Institute and Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Difficult Diasporas (NYU Press, 2013) and Infamous Bodies (Duke UP, 2020). 

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