The Hologram: Feminist Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future

In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die with neoliberal 'self-care' offering little more than a bandaid how can we take health and care back into our hands? In The Hologram Cassie Thornton puts forward a bold vision for revolutionary care: a viral peer-to-peer feminist health network. The premise is simple: three people - a 'triangle' - meet on a regular basis digitally or in person to focus on the physical mental and social health of a fourth - the 'hologram'. The hologram in turn teaches their caregivers how to give and also receive care; each member of their triangle becomes a hologram for another different triangle and so the system expands. Drawing on radical models developed in the Greek solidarity clinics during a decade of crisis and directly engaging with discussions around mutual aid and the coronavirus pandemic The Hologram develops the skills and relationships we desperately need for the anti-capitalist struggles of the present and the post-capitalist society of the future. One part art one part activism one part science fiction this book offers the reader a guide to establishing a Hologram network as well as reflections on this cooperative work in progress.