da Silveira Gorman, RachelKi, Patricia Hoi Ling2023-12-082023-12-082023-12-08https://hdl.handle.net/10315/41718This body of work contemplates and explores the question, how can care be practiced without replicating violence? Methodologically, it can be understood as an arts-based, multi-site project that focuses on service systems that claim to care, including mental health, social service, and education settings. This work unfolds through five storytelling and arts-making projects, each created with a collaborator who, along with me, brings to this process the experiences of providing services and accessing services, of perpetrating violence and being violated as racialized, femininized, and/or queer people in the care work systems that produce the very privileges we benefit from. At its heart, this body of work is a practice of unforgetting. It is compelled by the lives and deaths of the people we have worked with and the violence we have witnessed. Drawing on the collaborative arts-making projects as well as scholarships in disability and transformative justice, critical feminist and race theories, and feminist ethics of care, this work unpacks the discourse of trauma as a dominant story about violence through the concept of ghosts: the colonial ghosts that live in the bones of people who are labelled with trauma as well as people who provide care for trauma; the ghosts rendered as such through the casting out of belonging from the category of human but persist in appearing; the ghosts about whom tales of horror are constructed as warnings to protect the boundaries of the norm. Ghost stories led this work to a contemplation of grievability as a way of love and the basis of transformative, interdependent relationships, with those who are living and the ghosts we do not forget and remain accountable for – those already dead from colonial, ableist, racist, gender-based violence, from whom we learn to build a less violent future for those not yet born.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.EthicsSocial structureHealth care managementElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2023-12-08Ethics of careFeminist ethics of careFeminist theoriesAutotheoryCritical race theoryResearch-creationArts-based researchArts-based inquiryPoetryTransformative justiceDisability studiesCritical disability studiesDisability justiceGender studiesTraumaTrauma-informed careViolenceState violenceColonial violenceAnti-colonialismAnti-oppressionAnti-racismSystemic oppressionRacismAbleismCisheteropatriarchySocial workSocial servicesGriefLoveInterdependenceEntanglement