Care Is How We Remember

Abstract

This research discusses how the Good Hair Day (GHD) collective, a feminist and antiracist collective in Finland celebrating AfroFinnishness and afro hair, enacts collective care as a form of memory work. We conceptualize collective care as a method and an ethic of counterarchiving that affirms AfroFinnish presence and futurity. Writing from within the GHD collective, we explore how gathering and storytelling in informal and organized settings carry memory, forming embodied archives of healing and futurity. By theorizing memory as a collective and relational practice, this article contributes to AfroNordic feminist scholarship by emphasizing collective care as both a form of survival and an epistemology.