Bahar Banae York Unversty, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada Joshua Benjamn Falek York Unversty, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada Marcelle-Anne Fletcher York Unversty, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada Tapj Garba York Unversty, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada Ansha Sankar York Unversty, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada Patrck Teed Unversty of Toronto, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada Care and Cre, Some Preliminary Notes The essays n ths specal-themed ssue were presented n May 2023 at the annual Strateges of Crtque conference, hosted by York Unversty’s Socal and Poltcal Thought Programme under the ttle: “Care and Cure.” For three days, an nterds- cplnary and nternatonal group of graduate students, faculty, and ndependent scholars partcpated n communty-based workshops, exchanged deas across panels, and took pleasure n the soldarty of a shared analyss. Over the course of the conference, we were moved by how generatve the response to the theme was, undergrded by a collectve and urgent desre to unsettle taken-for-granted concepts n felds such as poltcal theology, femnsm, dsablty studes, Marxsm and Black studes. Startng wth the premse that care s mred n volence, the plenary panel wth Jaye Austn Wllams, Sara-Mara Sorentno and Patrce Douglass, moderated CORRESPODECE: concernng ths artcle should be addressed to Bahar Banae, York Unversty, Department of Socology, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada, M3J 1P3. E-mal: bahar. banae@gmal.com; Joshua Benjamn Falek, York Unversty, 7991, Gender, Femnst and Women’s Stu- des, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada, M3J 1P3. E-mal: jbfalek@yorku.ca; Marcelle-Anne Fletcher, York Unversty, Socal and Poltcal Thought 4700 Keele Street,Toronto, Ontaro, Canada, M3J 1P3. E-mal: mfletch@yorku.ca; Tapj Garba, York Unversty, Socal and Poltcal Thought 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada, M3J 1P3. E-mal: tapj.garba@gmal.com ; Ansha Sankar, York Unversty, Socal and Poltcal Thought 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada, M3J 1P3. E-mal: ansankar49@gmal.com ; and Patrck Teed, Unversty of Toronto, Department of Englsh, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontaro, Canada, M5R 2N8. Emal: patrckmchaelteed@gmal.com. Canadian Jurnal f Cultural Studies © University of Toronto Press, 2025 DOI: 10.3138/topia-2024-0037 TOPIA 49 1 https://utppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3138/topia-2024-0037 - Friday, April 25, 2025 11:58:11 AM - York University Libraries IP Address:130.63.63.214