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Across the global art world, explorations of motherhood, care, domestic labor, feminist practice, and SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) futurism are increasingly coming into view. Major exhibitions and cultural conversations have begun to take caregiving seriously as a creative and political force, while SWANA artists are gaining long-overdue recognition for work shaped by migration, memory, resistance, and imagination. Yet the particular ways SWANA caregivers make worlds and futures possible —through kinship, ritual, storytelling, mutual responsibility, and the daily labor of keeping one another alive—remain largely unnamed or even siloed.
