"Our promiscuity will save us"
 

Douglas Crimp, academic and ACT UP activist
"How to have Promiscuity in an Epidemic"
 
he writes that some gay leaders "insist that our promiscuity will destroy us when in fact it is our promiscuity that will save us"
 
the Care Collective develops Crimp's thinking into what they call "an ethics of promiscuous care"
 
("promiscuous care should [...] inform every scale of social life: not just our families but our communities, markets, states, and our transnational relationships with human and non-human life as well"

> from The Care Collective's The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (2020)

> tagged with #interspecies, #to_read, #nurturance, #promiscuity

> created November 4, 2025 at 1:13:22 PM


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