🔥 What if urbanism stopped seeing women only as caregivers?
In this episode of Auto Asphyxiation, Lark and Kimberly dismantle urban planning’s narrow fixation on women’s "care roles." Inspired by Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto’s groundbreaking essay "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism", we ignite a rebellion against cities built on gendered exhaustion.
We unpack:
✨ How Post-Care Feminist Urbanism redefines space, autonomy, and belonging beyond caregiving
✨ Why urban design must abandon its "myopic obsession" with women as default nurturers
✨ The tension between exhaustion and liberation in feminist spatial practice
✨ Why "I’m Not Your Auntie" isn’t a rejection of care—but a demand for radical reimagining
Beyond the Care Ghetto: Toward a Post-Care Feminist Urbanism
Rejecting urbanism’s reductive fixation on women as caregivers—and designing for desire. Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto’s “On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism” names a tension I’ve long wrestled with—and now fuels my framework of Post-Care Feminist Urbanism. While my approach diverges from theirs, their
L. Lo Sontag
