Organized in June 2024, Chronicling Care Oral History Project (CCOH) aims to create a living archive of community care and interdependence. Our project documents and preserves queer, disabled, and multiply marginalized Chicagoans’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the collective denial contributing to mask bans, an increasingly overburdened healthcare system, and weakened workplace protections, our project aims to build connective tissue between movements for non-carceral safety and justice. Our methods are twofold. First, we build digital and physical containers that preserve the experiences and organizing labor of the communities that have been most affected by the pandemic. Second, we work with organizers and groups to offer the training and resources necessary to incorporate storytelling and memory work into organizing spaces. Through these methods, we aim to deepen the relationships and practices of care that sustain our community while also meaningfully connecting our movement to a broader coalition of abolitionist, labor, and disability justice organizers.
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