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All I Wanna Say is That / They Don't Really Care about UsFriday, March 27 | 1:00 PM As an anthropologist and ethnographer studying the lived experiences of Black college black football players, I am consistently faced with these questions: Who cares for the athletes who sustain a billion-dollar industry that in return, does not compensate their athletic labor? What does this care look like? Black football players are underrepresented in college classrooms, overrepresented on college football fields, and live in larger-than-norm bodies that are built up for sport, all while navigating sporting and real worlds that are discriminatory and anti-Black. This group’s experiences are unique. Though teams and coaches offer a certain form of concern for players’ bodies so they will labor for free, my work reveals that other Black players and caring mothers are key actors in the network that holistically supports these athletes on and beyond the gridiron. In this talk, I will discuss the various geographies of care that Black college football players rely on to tackle their everyday lives, pointing to who really cares for them as they navigate extractive systems.
 Toward a Multitude of Care: Practices, Methods, and Solidarity in Times of CrisisSaturday, March 28 | 1:00 PM Feminist scholars argue that the devaluation of care work stems from a conceptualization of the caring as unskilled and incommensurate to capitalist values of profit accumulation. Layered on to the racialized and gendered devaluation of the people who do this work, care work is often ascribed to women in their own family networks, and often ethnic, women migrants of color who do the work of domesticity for a wage. In this talk, I share the experiences and struggles of Filipina care workers in the San Francisco/Bay Area as a prime example of healers and dealers of radical care. Drawing from my book, Caring for Caregivers (2024), I frame their stories in the various definitions of care that narrate their lives: transactional care, emotionality and lastly, the radical care amongst care workers—a rumination and envisioning of the value of care among this community in a time of crisis. The types of care I present prioritize a “relational” conceptualization of care work to explore Filipina care workers’ radical ethics and politics of care, that is at once, already happening and a possible future for us all. Learn more about Dr. Francisco-Menchavez.
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