To be Fussed Over: A Critical Phenomenological Examination of Black Feminist Practices of Care in the Midst of Polycrisis

This essay maps four Black feminist phenomenological reflections on care in the midst of polycrises. Linking the author’s series of Instagram stories ‘#MyBlackFeministCaronaChronicles’; an edited collection of West Philadelphia responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and uprisings, How We Stay Free; Toni Cade Bambara’s 1980 novel, The Salt Eaters; and bell hooks’s 1994 S isters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, the author seeks to describe how Black feminist modes of care are depicted via a Black feminist critical phenomenology that sees care as linked to intersubjectivity, intersectionality and liberation.