To Accompany is Political: A Transfeminist Essay on Homelessness

‘To Accompany is Political; A Transfeminist Essay on Homelessness’ is a powerful call for us to politically critique our own actions in front of inequity.

“What does accompanying mean? Where do we do it from? What do we do it for? What bonds are created between the accompanying person and the accompanied one?” By dissecting traditional models of social support, Montes Paez redesigns what it means to undertake social justice work and suggests we reframe our actions around ‘accompanying’ as a political act.

‘To Accompany is Political’ is a necessary activist tool for those working and fighting within any issue of social justice, but it comes at a vital time when the bodies of women, people of colour and trans and non-binary people, are being fought over and debated.

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