anarchist anti-creche, la bonne lousie, founded in Paris in 1909 (a city which had the highest concentrated of state subsidised childcare in the world at the time) bc existing creches were too catholic & social control-y. explicitly invited illegitimate children, usually excluded from trad creches

so special to get to come 'home' to Bristol for a seminar, huge thanks to @uobrishistory.bsky.social

writing a book!

obsessed with this campaign, and the rule it opposes: that you can't receive govt funding *as a registered childcare professional* for a child in your care that is related to you. such a tell for the principle that love cancels labour; it's not care-work, if you actually care

The conditions that produced it - transatlantic moves, international communities, precarity, friendship - are to be celebrated. They add to its riches. I was honoured to speak at the launch of Tehila's book, and what I said is below. This book is one of the very best to come from our generation